Use
research to answer the following questions. Be thorough.
1.
To what
do the terms interstitial, psammon, and meiofauna refer?
What do the modifiers meso- and thalasso- mean?
2.
What is /
are the most important factor (s) influencing the types of organisms present in
the interstitial environment? Examine
how grain size affects water drainage and oxygen content.
3.
Why are
psammic organisms mainly vermiform? What
is aworm?
4.
Why is a
freshwater flood usually of little matter to marine meiofauna.
Discuss.