Author Question: If someone brought you an organism from the nearshore environment on a rocky coastline and it ... (Read 66 times)

eruditmonkey@yahoo.com · **on:** Aug 22, 2018

If someone brought you an organism from the nearshore environment on a rocky coastline and it consisted almost entirely of soft parts, what nearshore environmental zone would you think it came from?

a) low tide zone
b) lower littoral zone
c) mid littoral zone
d) supra littoral zone
e) spray zone

Question 2

If you were on an oceanographic cruise from San Diego toward Hawaii and you sampled benthic organisms at stations along the track, what distribution of benthic life would you find?

a) mostly the same amount all along the track
b) low in numbers at first, but increasing over the ocean toward Hawaii
c) high in numbers at first, but decreasing over the ocean toward Hawaii
d) high in numbers at the beginning and varying throughout the journey
e) variable with patches of high and low abundance here and there