Intertidal Zones/Populations
The zone that receives the least amount of sunlight and oxygen.
What is the lower intertidal zone?
The two planetary bodies responsible for tides.
What are the sun and the moon?
The structure in a cephalopod that breaks apart shells of prey.
What is a beak?
The structure that allows gastropods to move across a surface.
What is a foot?
The town where spongebob and friends live.
What is Bikini Bottom?
The zone that forms small pools and is occasionally submerged.
What is the middle intertidal zone?
The planetary body that has the strongest influence on tides.
What is the moon?
The amount of tentacles a squid has.
What is 2?
The structure that forms a hinge between two shells. (The oldest part of a bivalve's shell)
What is an umbo?
The name of Spongebob's gastropod pet.
Who is Gary?
A group of same-species individuals that live together.
What is a population?
What is a spring tide?
The soft cavity that moves water in and out over the gills and can propel a cephalopod at tremendous speeds.
What is a mantle?
What is a mantle cavity?
What is calcium carbonate?
The item Plankton relentlessly tries to steal from Mr. Krabs.
What is the Krabby Patty?
What is the Krabby Patty secret formula?
All populations and abiotic factors in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
The name of the strongest tide of the year.
What is a king tide?
Specialized cells that expand and contract to form pigments across the skin.
What are chromatophores?
The muscle responsible for opening and closing a bivalve's shell
What is an adductor muscle?
The only main character in Spongebob who is a vertebrate.
Who is Sandy Cheeks?
What happens when an area contains the largest population size that can be supported by the available resources.
What is carrying capacity?
The name of the tide when the sun and moon are perpendicular to each other.
What is a neap tide?
Small structures that are powered by a water-vascular system and allow certain species of echinoderms to move.
What are tube feet?
The phylum that gastropods and bivalves belong to.
What is mollusca?
The only intertidal class/phylum covered in this unit that is not represented by one of the main characters in Spongebob.
What is a bivalve?