Multiple Choice
Particulate organic matter
A) Is deposited on the deep-sea floor in a very irregular way, causing patchiness in food supply
B) Reaches the deep-sea floor but is always too refractory to be of importance to the benthos
C) Never reaches the deep-sea floor
D) Arrives on the deep-sea floor continuously through the year as a drizzle of food supply for the deep-sea benthos
Correct Answer:
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Correct Answer:
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Q6: Following a disturbance, the later stages of
Q7: Temperature in the deep-sea abyssal plain<br>A) Is
Q8: Muddy sediments dominated by deposit feeders<br>A) Tend
Q9: Suspension feeders do badly in mud because
Q10: The number of benthic species<br>A) Increases continuously
Q12: Cold seeps<br>A) Are found in the same
Q13: In polar regions a unique supply of
Q14: Vestimentiferans can live without a gut because<br>A)
Q15: Which of the following statements about hot-vent
Q16: Until the 1950s deep-sea sampling was hampered