Category: Science
Created by: tahira rafiq
Number of Blossarys: 5
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Sea stars, sometimes called as starfishes have five arms that radiate from a central disk, though some have more than five, sometime close to 50. Hundreds of tube feet protrude from the oral surface ...
Some bony fishes use color for camouflage, but others, particularly those living in the tropics, are among the most brightly colored animals in the sea. The colored pigments in bony fishes are mostly ...
Cold seeps are places, mostly along continental margins or in sediment-rich basins like the Gulf of Mexico, where hydrogen sulfide and methane produced by the decay of organic matter seep out from ...
By-catch are the organisms that are caught unintentionally while fishing for other species. It is estimated that around 25% of the worldwide catch, roughly 25 million tons, is by-catch. The swordfish ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
