22) Examine the five words and/or phrases and determine the relationship among the majority of
words or phrases. Choose the one option that does not fit the pattern.
A) Regeneration
B) Inking
C) Mimicry
D) Stinging cells
E) Withdrawal into shell
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing
Section: 15.1 What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.1 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along rocky shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
23) Examine the five words and/or phrases and determine the relationship among the majority of
words or phrases. Choose the one option that does not fit the pattern.
A) Buckshot barnacle
B) Chiton
C) Hermit crab
D) Limpet
E) Periwinkle
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing
Section: 15.1 What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.1 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along rocky shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
24) Examine the five words and/or phrases and determine the relationship among the majority of
words or phrases. Choose the one option that does not fit the pattern.
A) Coral reef
B) Cold seeps
C) Hydrothermal vents
D) Kelp forests
E) Rocky intertidal zone
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing
Section: 15.3 What Communities Exist on the Shallow Offshore Ocean Floor?
Essent’l Concept: 15.3 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist on the shallow
offshore ocean floor
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
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25) Of the 230,000 known species that inhabit the marine environment, about how many live in
or on the ocean floor?
A) 145,000
B) 165,000
C) 185,000
D) 205,000
E) 225,000
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.1 What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.1 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along rocky shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
26) The distribution of benthic biomass closely matches the distribution of ________ in surface
waters.
A) carbonic acid
B) chlorophyll
C) density
D) salinity
E) temperature
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.1 What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.1 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along rocky shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
27) Which of the following is the most important variable affecting species diversity at similar
latitudes on opposite sides of an ocean basin?
A) Carbonic acid
B) Conductivity
C) Density
D) Salinity
E) Temperature
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.1 What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.1 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along rocky shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
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28) Strong attachment threads, biological adhesives, a muscular foot, multiple legs, or hundreds
of tube feet are adaptations to cope with which of the following adverse conditions of the rocky
intertidal zone?
A) Difficulty finding mates
B) Drying out during low tide
C) Lack of space or attachment sites
D) Predators
E) Strong wave activity
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.1 What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.1 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along rocky shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
29) Stinging cells, camouflage, and an inking response are adaptations to cope with which of the
following adverse conditions of the rocky intertidal zone?
A) Difficulty finding mates
B) Drying out during low tide
C) Lack of space or attachment sites
D) Predators
E) Strong wave activity
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.1 What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.1 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along rocky shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
30) Release of large numbers of eggs into the water column is an adaptation to cope with which
of the following adverse conditions of the rocky intertidal zone?
A) Difficulty finding mates
B) Drying out during low tide
C) Lack of space or attachment sites
D) Predators
E) Strong wave activity
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.1 What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.1 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along rocky shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
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31) Ability to break off body parts and regrow them later is an adaptation to cope with which of
the following adverse conditions of the rocky intertidal zone?
A) Difficulty finding mates
B) Drying out during low tide
C) Lack of space or attachment sites
D) Predators
E) Strong wave activity
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.1 What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.1 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along rocky shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
32) Planktonic larval forms are an adaptation to cope with which of the following adverse
conditions of the rocky intertidal zone?
A) Difficulty finding mates
B) Drying out during low tide
C) Lack of space or attachment sites
D) Predators
E) Strong wave activity
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.1 What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.1 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along rocky shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
33) Which of the following are among the first organisms to colonize a rocky shore?
A) Rock louse
B) Rock weed
C) Sea anemone
D) Sea cucumber
E) Sea urchin
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.1 What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.1 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along rocky shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
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34) A pronounced layer of which of the following can often be one of the most recognizable
features of middle tidal zones along rocky coasts?
A) Limpets
B) Mussels
C) Sea Anemones
D) Sea stars
E) Sea urchin
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.1 What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.1 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along rocky shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
35) Which of the following digests the edible tissue inside a mussel shell by turning its stomach
inside out and slipping it through the crack in the shell?
A) Limpets
B) Sea Anemones
C) Sea stars
D) Sea urchin
E) Snails
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.1 What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.1 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along rocky shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
36) Which of the following protects itself with stinging needlelike cells called nematocysts?
A) Limpets
B) Sea Anemones
C) Sea stars
D) Sea urchin
E) Snails
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.1 What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.1 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along rocky shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
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37) Which of the following sediment-covered shores represents the lowest-energy environment?
A) Boulder beaches
B) Mud flats
C) Pebble berms
D) Salt marshes
E) Sand beaches
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.2 What Communities Exist Along Sediment-Covered Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.2 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along sediment-
covered shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
38) Which of the following sediment-covered shores represents the lowest-energy environment?
A) Boulder beaches
B) Mud flats
C) Pebble berms
D) Salt marshes
E) Sand beaches
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.2 What Communities Exist Along Sediment-Covered Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.2 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along sediment-
covered shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
39) The intertidal zonation of sediment-covered shores is best developed on a ________ sloping,
________-sand beach.
A) gentle; coarse
B) gentle; fine
C) steeply; coarse
D) steeply; fine
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.2 What Communities Exist Along Sediment-Covered Shores?
Essent’l Concept: 15.2 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist along sediment-
covered shores
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
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40) Under ideal conditions, the giant brown bladder kelp can grow up to two ________ per day.
A) centimeters
B) feet
C) inches
D) meters
E) yards
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.3 What Communities Exist on the Shallow Offshore Ocean Floor?
Essent’l Concept: 15.3 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist on the shallow
offshore ocean floor
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
41) The giant brown bladder kelp the fastest-growing ________ in the world.
A) algae
B) annelid
C) mammal
D) meiofauna
E) plant
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.3 What Communities Exist on the Shallow Offshore Ocean Floor?
Essent’l Concept: 15.3 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist on the shallow
offshore ocean floor
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
42) Which of the following animals feed directly on living kelp?
A) Lobsters
B) Mollusks
C) Otters
D) Sea stars
E) Sea urchins
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.3 What Communities Exist on the Shallow Offshore Ocean Floor?
Essent’l Concept: 15.3 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist on the shallow
offshore ocean floor
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
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43) Which of the following lobsters exhibits a behavior of migrating single file across the sea
floor in lines that are several kilometers long?
A) Homarus americanus
B) Metanephrops japonicus
C) Nephrops norvegicus
D) Panulirus argus
E) Panulirus interruptus
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.3 What Communities Exist on the Shallow Offshore Ocean Floor?
Essent’l Concept: 15.3 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist on the shallow
offshore ocean floor
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
44) The so-called true lobsters belong to which genus?
A) Homarus
B) Metanephrops
C) Nephrops
D) Panulirus
E) Portunus
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.3 What Communities Exist on the Shallow Offshore Ocean Floor?
Essent’l Concept: 15.3 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist on the shallow
offshore ocean floor
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
45) Which of the following do not eat oysters?
A) Crabs
B) Fishes
C) Lobsters
D) Sea stars
E) Snails
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.3 What Communities Exist on the Shallow Offshore Ocean Floor?
Essent’l Concept: 15.3 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist on the shallow
offshore ocean floor
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
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46) Corals need water where the average monthly temperature exceeds ________ Celsius
throughout the year.
A) 18°
B) 22°
C) 26°
D) 30°
E) 34°
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.3 What Communities Exist on the Shallow Offshore Ocean Floor?
Essent’l Concept: 15.3 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist on the shallow
offshore ocean floor
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
47) Corals cannot survive for long when the water temperature exceeds ________ Celsius.
A) 18°
B) 22°
C) 26°
D) 30°
E) 34°
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.3 What Communities Exist on the Shallow Offshore Ocean Floor?
Essent’l Concept: 15.3 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist on the shallow
offshore ocean floor
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
48) Water warm enough to support coral growth is found primarily in the ________ regions of
the oceans.
A) polar
B) subpolar
C) subtropical
D) temperate
E) tropical
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.3 What Communities Exist on the Shallow Offshore Ocean Floor?
Essent’l Concept: 15.3 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist on the shallow
offshore ocean floor
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
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49) Reefs grow as far north and south as 35° latitude on the ________ margins of ocean basins.
A) central
B) eastern
C) northern
D) southern
E) western
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.3 What Communities Exist on the Shallow Offshore Ocean Floor?
Essent’l Concept: 15.3 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist on the shallow
offshore ocean floor
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
50) The greatest diversity of reef-building corals is found on the ________ side of ocean basins.
A) central
B) eastern
C) northern
D) southern
E) western
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.3 What Communities Exist on the Shallow Offshore Ocean Floor?
Essent’l Concept: 15.3 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist on the shallow
offshore ocean floor
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
51) Which of the following oceans has the least diversity of reef-building corals?
A) Atlantic Ocean
B) Indian Ocean
C) Pacific Ocean
D) Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
E) Indian and Pacific Oceans
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Section: 15.3 What Communities Exist on the Shallow Offshore Ocean Floor?
Essent’l Concept: 15.3 Specify characteristics of the communities that exist on the shallow
offshore ocean floor
OSLP: 5 The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
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