ocean surface - 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern

Question

Unlike most organisms, animals in this region tend to contain blue pigmentation. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name or describe this general region inhabited by organisms called neuston, such as the Glaucus genus of nudibranchs (NOO-dih-branks).

ANSWER: ocean surface [accept sea surface microlayer; accept descriptions indicating a body of water and its surface or its boundary with the atmosphere; prompt on ocean or sea; prompt on photic zone or epipelagic zone]

[10e] A namesake neustonic algae allows this sea of the Atlantic Ocean to serve as a concentrated biodiversity hotspot. Research suggests sea turtles may spend their “lost years” in this sea.

ANSWER: Sargasso Sea

[10m] The gyres that produce this ecosystem leave it, like the Sargasso Sea, as one of the few ecosystems observed to contain a high density of neuston. A 2018 Nature study estimated this ecosystem to stretch over 1.6 million square kilometers and contain 79 thousand tons of plastic.

ANSWER: Great Pacific Garbage Patch [or North Pacific Garbage Patch; accept GPGP; prompt on Pacific garbage patch; prompt on the plastisphere]

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Summary


2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	Y	6	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	4	20.00	75%	100%	25%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	16.67	67%	0%	100%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	23.33	33%	100%	100%

Data


Chicago A	Maryland B-	10	10	20
Chicago B+	Epic Games	10	10	20
Amartya Senpai Notice Me	Northwestern	10	10	20
OSU	Michigan	10	10	20
Mojo Shojo	Purdue	10	10	20
Illinois A+	WUSTL	10	10	20