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What terms describes organisms that live on or in the ocean floor?
Benthos
What term describes organisms that live in or in the ocean floor?
Benthos
What are organisms that live above the ocean floor called?
organisms that live on the ocean floor are called Benthos
What are the organisms that live live attached to the bottom of the ocean?
benthos they survive without sunlight.
Is a sea urchin plankton nekton or benthos?
A sea urchin is classified as benthos. Benthos refers to organisms that live on or near the bottom of a body of water, and sea urchins typically inhabit the ocean floor, often among rocks or coral. In contrast, plankton are free-floating organisms, and nekton are active swimmers.
Are stonefish benthos?
Stonefish are benthos. They are bottom dwellers. Benthos are marine animals that live at the bottom of the ocean there for they are benthos.
Where is benthos located?
Benthos is a term for bottom-dwelling (i.e. on, in, or very near) organisms because they live on the seabed (what is known as the "benthic zone"). There are different classifications though: the epifauna live on the sea bottom and infauna live in the sediments on the sea bottom.
Are sessile organisms part of the benthos?
yes
Scientist who study the ocean floor are called?
Benthos
What are the 3 groups of ocean life?
plankton-organisms that drift with ocean currents. nekton-are free swimmers. they are able to move through the ocean waters in search of food. benthos-are bottom dwellers. organisms that live on or below the ocean bottom
What is organismn?
The three main marine organisms that live in the oceans are-benthos- live on the ocean floornekton- swim freely in columnplankton- get pulled by the oceans strong current
Does organisms plankton nekton and benthos have in common?
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