Geography
Marine Animals
Crazy facts
Marine Sciences
100
The biggest body of water on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
This animal is said to be the largest on earth.
What is a Blue whale
100
This is the percentage of Earth the ocean covers.
What is about 70%?
100
Some fish like clown fish live in this plant like animal.
What is an anemone?
200
The biggest coral reef is located here.
Where is off the coast of Queensland, Australia, in the Pacific Ocean?
200
This is the name of a group of dolphins.
What is a pod?
200
This is the world's largest mountain chain that happens to be almost fully underwater.
What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge?
200
Name of the Act which Protects Seals and other marine mammals from humans.
What is the Marine Mammal Protection Act?
300
The Oceanic Trench is located here.
Where is the western Pacific east of the Philippines?
300
This animal decorates their homes with shells and rocks.
What is an octopus?
300
This is the number of species recognized by the World Register of Marine Species.
What is 240,470 accepted species?
Accepted answers: 200K - 250K
(scientists think this is only a small portion of the species that really exist)
300
This is the most abundant life form in the ocean.
What is Plankton?
400
The passage way that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
400
This benthic (found on the ocean floor) animal has a digestive system that helps to clean the ocean.
What is a sea cucumber
400
The biggest whales have this unique feature which helps them feed.
What is Baleen?
400
This is the name of the area/zone that is at the edge of every coast.
Intertidal Zone
500
The worlds largest enclosed body of water.
What is the Caspian Sea?
500
This animal remains pregnant longer than any other animal on earth.
What is frilled sharks? (42 months aka 3.5 years)
500
This depth is where they recorded the deepest fish.
Bonus: This is the fish
What is 27,349 feet, or 5.2 miles deep?
Juvenile Snailfish in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench
500
This ocean phenomenon causes unusually warm waters in the Pacific and affects global weather.
What is El Niño?