Major fisheries are concentrated in the neritic zone (above the continental shelf) because of all of the following except ________.
A) there is an abundance of sunlight to support photosynthesis
B) there are rapid changes in oxygen concentrations,temperature,and salinity that encourage diversity
C) nutrients wash in from land
D) the sea bottom provides shelter and habitat
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Q26: Fish most commonly live _.
A)in the deepest
Q27: Seaweed (large marine algae)grows in shallow coastal
Q28: Organisms,such as algae and bacteria,that drift with
Q29: Animals capable of moving independent of the
Q30: _ organisms live on or in the
Q32: sodium chloride magnesium chloride sodium sulfate carbon
Q33: Productivity in temperate oceans is determined by
Q34: One disadvantage to living near the surface
Q35: Productivity is highest in _.
A)polar oceans
B)tropical oceans
C)temperate
Q36: On the deep seafloor,organisms are widely distributed
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