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Question: What is a thermocline? How does it become established? why is it that, once a thermocline has become established, it will not be disrupted by a summer storm? What is a pycnocline? Explain what is the Coriolis Effect and explain what are gyres. With respect to flotation mechanism, explain how reduction of overweight is accomplished with zooplankton. Explain how the microbial loop system in marine ecosystem works. Explain what is marine snow and effect in the ecosystem. Most fishes can regulate the amount of gas in the gas bladder and change their state of buoyancy. Explain how the two types of gas bladder systems known works. Most nektonic marine mammals regularly dive, or are capable of diving, to depths far greater than that to which human can dive. Porpoises are known to dive to depths 160-1,800 m and to hold their breaths for 6-48 minutes. the champion is the sperm whale, which can dive as deep as 2,250 m and hold its breath for 80 minutes. How is it possible to do this, and what special adaptations (4) to these marine mammals posses? Are phytoplanktonic plants the only photosynthetic organisms present in the plankton? What noneukaryotic organism may be important