Ocean Science
Force caused by the Earths rotation and helps move currents
What is Coriolis effect?
tiny animals that make up corals
What is polyps?
what is crown-of-thorns
woven traps. traditional fishing method
what is enu fishing?
Odontocetes
Ocean currents help distribiute this factor around the world.
What is heat/temperature?
fairly flat corals that covers the bottom of reefs like paint
What are encrusting corals?
Popular clam referenced in the Samoan Tatau song
what are giant clams?
Lau fishing using coconut fronds or netting for this fish
what is atule fishing?
english word for Mumua and sacred to which village in American Samoa
what is dolphin and Fagasa?
blocks sunlight from reaching corals after mass flooding
what is sediments?
branches that look like finger.
What are finger corals?
Samoan Name: Alualu
What is Jellyfish?
what is overfishing
Tafola
what is Samoan word for whale?
temperature cyclones can form
what is 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.5 degrees Celcius)?
marine plant that is pink smooth coating that helps corals reestablished after damage.
What are coralline algae?
what are herbivorous fish?
** Corals in Genus Fungia, Lobopyllia and Acropora **
what is mushroom corals, flower corals and table corals
What is Samoan word for Sea Turtle?
Warm Surface currents in the Pacific generally move in this direction
What is Westward?
Nickname of One of the world largest corals found in Ta'u.
what is Big Mama?
alogo, manini and pone belong in this group of fish
what is surgeonfish?
Rod and reel, gleaning, bamboo pole, free diving, nets, etc. are types of what kind of fishing practices in Samoa
What is subsistence fishing?
FINAL JEOPARDY: whales fave meal that are red and tiny. Master of disguise. Edible portion of the polychaete worm?
what is krill? what is fe'e? what is Palolo?