ocean surface - 2023 BHSU @ Yale

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


Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	0	10	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Columbia B	10	0	10	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	10	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	0	10	10
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	0	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	10	0	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	10	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	10	10	30
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	10	10	10	30
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	10	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	10	10	30
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	10	10	10	30
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	0	0	0
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Columbia B	10	0	0	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	0	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
meet the new weird, same as the old weird	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	10	10	0	20
meet the new weird, same as the old weird	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
meet the new weird, same as the old weird	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	10	10	0	20
meet the new weird, same as the old weird	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	0	0	0
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	0	0	10
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	10	0	0	10
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	10	0	10
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	10	0	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	10	10	0	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	10	0	10
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	10	0	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	10	10	0	20
meet the new weird, same as the old weird	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	10	10	10	30
meet the new weird, same as the old weird	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
meet the new weird, same as the old weird	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	10	10	10	30
meet the new weird, same as the old weird	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	0	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	0	10	10
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	0	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	10	0	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	10	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	10	10	30
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	10	10	10	30
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	10	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	10	10	30
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	10	10	10	30