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🐠Marine Biology
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184 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Marine Biology exam

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A

Abyssal plains
Abyssal zone
Acorn Barnacles
Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs)
Acoustic Monitoring
Acoustic remote sensing
Acoustic telemetry tags
Adaptive Radiation
Agonistic behavior
Agulhas Current
Algal farming
Alternation of generations
Antarctic Bottom Water
Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Antifreeze proteins
Apex Predators
Aquaculture Technology
Artisanal fisheries
Ascophyllum nodosum
Auditory system
Autonomous underwater vehicles
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)

B

Barrier Reef
Bathyal zone
Bathypelagic zone
Behavioral plasticity
Benthic organisms
Benthic Sampling
Benthic surveys
Benthic zone
Biodiversity conservation
Biodiversity hotspots
Biogeochemical sampling
Biogeographic patterns
Bioindicator
Biological monitoring
Bioprospecting
Black smoker
Bleaching Events
Blue carbon strategies
Bony Fish
Brackish Water
Brittle star
Broadcast spawning
Brood care
Brown algae
Burrowing Behavior

C

Cage culture
Calci sponges
Carbon cycling
Carnivorous Fish
Cartilaginous fish
Chemical contamination
Chemoautotrophic bacteria
Chemosynthetic bacteria
Chloride Cells
Chlorophyll a concentration
Coastal Zones
Commercial fisheries
Competitive Exclusion Principle
Connectivity between populations
Coral gardening
Coral Polyps
Coral Triangle
Coralline Algae
Coriolis Effect
Countercurrent heat exchange
Courtship displays
Courtship rituals
Cryptic coloration

D

Deep-sea mining
Denitrifying bacteria
Deuterostome
Diatoms
Dinoflagellates