Marine Biology Study Guide for Test 1
The test will include questions covering the material presented on the Biology Review, Ocean Basin,
Circulation, and Chemical/Physical Features of the Ocean Notes. It will also have some information from the
Ocean Currents homework worksheets. The following information is a Guideline. It is not the test questions
nor does it state how exactly the questions will be worded. It is the information that will be tested.
Biology Review Notes: (most of the questions from this section will be multiple choice but not all)
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Know what the 4 major macromolecules are as well as the leading characteristic of them (first bullet
under each macromolecule)
Know what photosynthesis, chemosynthesis, and cellular respiration are.
Know what somatic cells are and what gametes are.
Know the difference between osmoconformers and osmoregulators
Know the difference between endothermic and exothermic organisms
Be able to put the 7 major taxa in order (King Phillip Came Over For Great Soup)
Be able to identify the correct scientific name for an organism based on the rules of binomial
nomenclature (capital first letter of genus name and lower case first letter for species name.
Origin and Structure of the Ocean Basins Notes: (could be asked in any way)
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Who proposed continental drift initially
What is the name they gave for super-continent or the land mass when all the continents were
together
What are 4 things that support the idea that there was a super-continent
What are the 3 types of plate boundaries, how do the plates move at each of these boundaries, and
what events can occur at each specific boundary?
Understand what plate will subduct under the other in oceanic – oceanic collision and oceanic –
continental collision.
Be able to identify the oldest island and youngest island based on hot spot knowledge
Circulation of the Air and Oceans Notes: (could be asked in any way)
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Know and understand Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouse Effect, Global Warming, and Ozone Layer (will
be in multiple choice format)
What role do chemicals put into the atmosphere play in depleting the ozone layer
Refer to homework for Ocean and air Current Questions
Know what longshore currents do
Know what wave are caused by and how they work
What are tides and what are they caused by
Be identify the pictures of a spring tide, proxigean spring tide, and a neap tide
Be able to explain what a spring tide, proxigean spring tide, and a neap tide are and any identifying
characteristics
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Be able to identify the pictures of diurnal, semi-diurnal, and mixed tides. Be able to tell me how many
tides there are in a tidal day for each. For mixed tides be able to label high high tides, low high tides,
high low tides, and low low tides on the mixed tide picture.
Know what type of tide would be on the SC coast (diurnal, semi-diurnal, or mixed tides)
Chemical and Physical Features of the World Ocean: (could be asked in any way) This section is very
important you really need to know all of the facts in it.
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Know oceans play role in regulating climate and atmosphere
Without water life would be impossible
Oceans make up 75% of Earth’s surface
What are the names of the 4 large ocean basins?
Know how much water is in most marine organisms as well as specifically jellies
Water is only substance that naturally occurs as solid, liquid, and gas on earth
Know the different phase changes discussed in class
Know and be able to use density equation
Know and understand the unique characteristic of water that allows life to exist in lakes and ponds
Where do the solids that are dissolved in seawater come from?
Know the 6 solutes that make up the salts in the seawater
Know the relationship between salinity, temperature, and density and be able to apply that
relationship to solve a problem.
Understand the rule of constant proportions
Know Transparency and why it’s an important characteristic of the ocean water
Understand the relationship between pressure and depth
Ocean Current and Global Weather Homework Worksheets:
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Know what a gyre is.
Be able to label Eastern trade winds, Westerlies, N.Hemisphere current gyre, S. Hemisphere current
gyre, California Current, and the Gulf Stream based on the pictures in the homework