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    Derived from the Greek for swimming, what 6 letter word is applied to that ecological division of aquatic creatures that are able to swim by their own efforts as opposed to the aquatic creatures that can only drift wherever the water takes them?

    Question #87110. Asked by nibbles0011. (Oct 10 07 12:35 PM)


    Verbonica

    		nekton

    (NEK-tuhn)

    Swimming sea creatures.

    Nineteenth-century naturalists divided the creatures of the sea into three rather poetic groupings. Nekton (from a Greek word meaning"to swim") referred to those who could swim against the current. Plankton (from the Greek for "to wander") designated those simply drifting about. The name benthos (which in Greek means "the bottom of the sea,") applies to the plants and animals that dwell in the depths.

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    Oct 10 07, 12:48 PM

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