Sumich Marine Biology, 8E: Study Quizzes

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Introduction to the Biology of Marine Life, Eighth Edition, James L. Sumich and John F. Morrissey

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Please read each question and select your answer from the choices provided. You must complete all of the questions in order to view your results. At the end of each exam, you have the option to e-mail your results to your instructor.

1: Members of a Macoma community include all of the following except:
	A: burrowing bivalves
	B: sea cucumbers
	C: burrowing worms
	D: epifaunal shrimp

2: The aftermath of war in the Persian Gulf in the early 1990s was that a volume of oil equal to one Exxon Valdez spill entered to sea each month.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

3: The Prestige oil spill off the coast of Spain was greater than the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaskan waters.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

4: The foamy mixture of oil and seawater that forms along beaches after an oil spill is called:
	A: sludge
	B: petroleum foam
	C: chocolate mousse
	D: anaerobic barrier

5: The grunion is a fish that actually leaves the water to deposit eggs on land.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

6: Macoma communities are most common in soft muddy sediments.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

7: Sand crabs are infaunal creatures that filter feed with their:
	A: feet
	B: antennae
	C: mouth parts
	D: tails

8: Horizontal zonation occurs along sandy beaches.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

9: Sea anemones battling for space on rocky shorelines can damage their neighbors with their:
	A: acrorhagi
	B: secreted poisons
	C: acidic mucus
	D: large teeth

10: All marine invertebrate larvae remain in the plankton community for five weeks and then settle to the sea floor.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

11: The kelp species with a very long stipe, one enormous pneumatophore, and blades on only one end of the stipe is called:
	A: giant kelp
	B: bullwhip kelp
	C: feather boa kelp
	D: sargassum

12: The bean clam, Donax, actually migrates up and down sandy beaches.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

13: The cues that induce a larva to leave the plankton, settle on the sea floor, and metamorphose into a juvenile are well understood.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

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