marine bio

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Marine Bio Pd 5 Midterm Exam 1. sessile - permanently attached or fixed; not free-moving benthic - the bottom under a body of water neritic - of or relating to the region of the sea over the continental shelf which is less than 200 meters deep stenohaline - limited to or able to live only within a narrow range of saltwater concentrations ecology - the relationship between organisms and their environment nekton - actively swimming animals in a body of water spring tide - the exceptionally high and low tides that occur at the time of the new moon or the full moon when the sun, moon, and earth are approximately aligned niche - the function or position of an organism or population within an ecological community estuary - the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix prokaryote - a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei aphotic - the region of a body of water that is not reached by sunlight and in which photosynthesis is unable to occur phytoplankton - photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae autotroph - an organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances, using light or chemical energy hermaphrodite - a plant or animal that normally has both male and female reproductive organs population - all the organisms that constitute a specific group or occur in a specified habitat 2...