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Hō‘ike o Haleakalā Curriculum

High school science curriculum designed by Maui teachers and field biologists

Zooxanthellae

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

single-celled organisms that live in the tissue of corals and provide energy to the corals (M2)

Zooplankton

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

plankton composed of tiny animals (M2)

Zonation

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

the distribution of plants and animals according to environmental conditions, generally in a pattern of vertical banding (M3)

Windward ability

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

the capacity of a sailing vessel to sail into the wind (M1)

Wayfinder

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

in traditional Polynesian voyaging, the person who navigates the canoe using no instruments (M1)

Visual strip-transect search

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

a research method for studying fish in which two divers swim side-by-side down either side of a transect, counting all fishes seen within a specified corridor (M4)

Trophic levels

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

pathways and levels through which nutrients and energy flow between organisms (M2)

Transect

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

a sample area, usually in the form of a long, continuous strip; in coral reef monitoring, often a marked line across the reef (M4, M5)

Tertiary consumers

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

predators that feed on secondary consumers and comprise the fourth trophic level of marine food webs (M2)

Target screen

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

a destination area set in charting a navigational course in which the highest points of the destination islands will be visible (M1)

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