Oceans 101
This is the percentage of Earth's surface is covered by oceans
What is 71%
This is the largest fish in the world
What is a whale shark?
This is the largest ocean on Earth
This process occurs when too many fish are removed from a population faster than they can reproduce
What is Overfishing?
This marine mammal is famous for its black and white coloration and its hunting strategies
What are Orcas?
This term describes the regular rise and fall of ocean water caused primarily by the Moon's gravity
This is the largest toothed whale and is famous for diving to great depths to hunt squid
What is a Sperm Whale?
This is known as the deepest point in the Ocean
What is the Mariana Trench?
This type of pollution occurs when excess nutrients from farms and fertilizers enter waterways and can cause harmful algal blooms
What is Nutrient pollution?
This animal's name literally means "one-horned" and its famous tusk is actually a modified tooth on its head
What is a Narwhal?
This term describes the permanent, naturally occurring movement of water between the ocean and atmosphere as part of Earth's climate system
What are the Water Cycles?
This extinct ocean predator had teeth over 7 inches long and is estimated to have been several times longer than its common day counterpart
What is a Megalodon?
This landform is created when sediment carried by a river accumulates where the river reaches a larger body of water
What is a Delta?
This marine animal was once hunted nearly to extinction but has experienced major population recoveries after international protections
What is a Whale?
This animal's name comes from the Greek words for sea monster and it is one of the largest invertebrates known to science
What is a Giant Squid?
This is the (scientific) name for the region of the ocean where sunlight does not penetrate
What is the Aphotic/Midnight zone?
This animal's tongue alone can weigh roughly as much as an elephant
What is a Blue Whale?
This location in the South Pacific is the farthest point from any land on Earth, located about 2,688 km (~1670 miles) from the nearest landmass
What is Point Nemo?
This greenhouse gas is absorbed by seawater and contributes to ocean acidification
What is CO2 (Carbon dioxide)?
This animal has no brain, no heart, and no bones, yet can detect light and chemicals in its environment
What is a Jellyfish?
This famous expedition, launched in 1872, helped establish modern oceanography by collecting thousands of marine specimens and ocean measurements
What is the Challenger Expedition?
This is the largest species of sea turtle and can weigh more than 1,300 lb/600 kg
What is a Leatherback Sea Turtle
This sea is actually the world's largest inland body of water and is bordered by five countries
What is the Caspian Sea?
This international agreement, adopted in 2015, aims to limit global warming and reduce the effects of climate change that threaten marine ecosystems
What is the Paris Agreement?
This crustacean can strike so quickly that it creates a cavitation bubble capable of stunning prey
What is a Mantis Shrimp?