Year 12 · QCE / Marine Science
Flashcards and recall.
Make a short deck from material you need to recall without notes.
Try this with Marine Science
- Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
- Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
- Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.
Recall topics
- Between which approximate latitudes are most hermatypic coral reefs found?
- Why are coral reefs scarce on the western coasts of continents?
- How does coral diversity change with latitude along the Great Barrier Reef?
- Why are inshore GBR reefs often dominated by sediment-tolerant corals and macroalgae?
- What are outer-shelf reefs like compared with inshore reefs?
- What temperature range suits hermatypic corals?
- Why do hermatypic corals need low nitrate and phosphate levels?
- Why are reef-building corals limited to shallow water?
- How does salinity limit coral distribution?
- Why does aragonite saturation matter for reef distribution?
- Why do coral larvae need a hard substrate?
- How long have corals existed in the geological record?
- What was sea level like about 20 000 years BP?
- When did sea level stabilise near its present level?
- Why is the modern Great Barrier Reef described as geologically young?
- Fringing reef
- Platform reef
- Ribbon reef
- Atoll
- Coral cay
- What are the main zones of a reef cross-section, from the ocean side?
- Why does the reef crest have robust, low-growing corals?
- Scleractinia
- Alcyonacea
- Hermatypic coral
- Ahermatypic coral
- How is an identification key used to classify a coral to genus?
- Corallite
- Nematocyst
- Coelenteron
- Zooxanthellae
- What does the coral give its zooxanthellae?
- Write the equation for coral skeleton formation.
- Which factors increase the rate of coral calcification?
- How does light speed up calcification?
- Why do many coral polyps feed at night?
- How are polyps in a colony connected?
- Name the asexual methods of reproduction in hard corals.
- What happens during mass coral spawning on the GBR?
- Planula
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