Mobility to Move
A group of animals that drift with the current.
What are plankton?
Areas of the ocean filled with large, long, brown seaweeds.
What are kelp forests?
Sea urchins and sea stars are commonly found in both of these habitats.
What are tide pools and coral reefs?
Most aquatic creatures are classified as this _____ when they hatch.
What are plankton?
These animals possess the unique ability to make their own light.
What are bioluminescent animals?
An eel is an example of this type of animal.
What is nektonic.
Groups of trees that grow along the shore in the ocean waters along the equator.
What are mangrove forests?
What are kelp forests?
The giant barrel sponge is an example of this ______ type of animal?
What is a filter feeder?
These two oceans touch the sides of the United States.
What are the Pacific and Atlantic?
Animals that scurry about, crawl along, slither, and scoot across the bottom of the ocean.
What are benthic animals?
Large fields of grass in the ocean.
What are sea grass beds?
Areas on the ocean floor where hot mineral water spews from cracks in the earths crust.
What are hydrothermal vents?
This gentle marine mammal can be found in seagrass beds.
What is a manatee?
Ocean currents that flow in a circle.
What are gyres.
Animals that can swim or propel themselves forward with purpose.
What is nekton?
This habitat is formed when ocean water rises with the tide and forms pools in rocky shorelines.
What are tide pools.
Places where rivers and streams begin to merge with ocean water.
What are estuaries?
They are the wall builders of the animal world?
What is coral?
Names of the five oceans.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, and Southern Oceans?
A group of animals that don't move at all.
What is sessile?
The largest structure in the world made by animals. It is even visible from space.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
Another name for the open ocean.
What is the pelagic zone?
The pelagic zone is home to this fierce hunter.
What is the great white shark?
No light from the sun reaches this zone.
What is the midnight zone?