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Oceans Alive! | Life in the Sea
Plants are found only in the sunlit zone where there is enough light for photosynthesis, ...
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Freshwater Website: Informational Resources and Services (Glossary)
Simple rootless plants that grow in sunlit waters in relative proportion to the amounts of nutrients ... percolation - The movement of water downward through the subsurface to the zone of saturation. permafrost - Perennially frozen layer in the soil, found ... Z zooplankton - Tiny aquatic animals eaten by fish. zone of saturation - A subsurface zone in which all the pores or the ...
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Geoff Regan meeting
Physical forces, such as wind, currents, and seasonal temperature gradients, can cause ... information they have about the dramatic unexplained plankton shift in our now fish-poor coastal zone, hoping perhaps that a seal cull will induce a reversal of the trend (ridiculous), and ...
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The Deep Sea at MarineBio.org - Ocean biology, Marine life, Sea creatures, Marine conservation...
The zone just beneath the pelagic zone is the benthic zone, which reaches depths of about 700-1,000 m. The abyssal ... temperature between the photic, or sunlit, zones nearer to the surface and the deep sea are dramatic. Temperatures vary more in the waters above the benthic zone where thermoclines, or the separation ...
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Orca Network - Sightings Archives - November 2004
Blake and Vashon more or less converge, making kind of a basin - probably a convergent zone for fish. Little Springer did pretty well in the area! Sunset was upon us as ... to mill for a few minutes, and the sweep of the water was alive with sunlit orca blows, like a beautiful field of pale yellow flowers. John Loftus, Alki Beach * K ...
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WWF - Blue Planet: Open ocean
The open ocean is enormous. Also called the pelagic zone, it includes all the world's oceans except for coastal ... There's also a huge 'vertical' variety, from sunlit surface waters down through the twilight zone to almost complete darkness and crushing pressures ... immense commercial value to people. Find out more: Ocean ecology: sunlit surface waters Ocean ecology: the dim and dark depths Ocean ...
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WWF - Ocean ecology: sunlit surface waters
WWF Sign in | Sign up | Help About WWF How You Can ... Ocean ecology: sunlit surface waters More information Pictures: Phytoplankton Pictures: Zooplankton The first 200m or so of the open ocean is called the epipelagic zone. Enough ... to grow. The sunlight is no problem, but in general the epipelagic zone is low in nutrients because organic debris (such as dead animals) sinks ...
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