Category: Science
Created by: tahira rafiq
Number of Blossarys: 5
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Radiolarians are marine organisms that secrete elaborate and delicate shells made of glass( silica) and other materials. Typical shells are spherical with radiating spines, though the structure ...
Photic zone is the zone from the surface to the depth where there is no longer enough light for organisms to grow by photosynthesis. The depth of the photic zone varies, depending on water clarity ...
Sometimes symbionts benefit at the expense of the host, this is called as parasitism. The giant tapeworms that derive food and shelter by the guts of whales are considered parasites because they may ...
Kelps are the most complex and largest of all brown algae found in sea. Most kelps are found below the low tide level in temperate and subpolar latitudes. These kelps grow in great abundance, ...
The volcanic island chains associated with the trenches follow the trenche's curvature and are called island arcs. When two oceanic plates collide, one of the plates dips beneath the other to form ...
Eelgrass is widely distributed in temperate and cold waters of the Pacific and North Atlantic. It is most common in shallow waters, sometimes exposed at low tide, but has been found at depths of up ...
Most of the deep-sea floor lies at a depth of 16,500 ft. The deep-sea floor or abyssal plain, rises at a very gentle slope of less than 1 degree toward the mid-ocean ridge.Though relatively flat, it ...
