Marine Life Vocabulary
The place where an animal or plant lives.
What is Habitat.
The tiny green plants that grow in water
What is Algae.
A group of the same kind of animals living in one place.
What is Population.
A group of fish swimming together.
What is a Shoal/School.
An animal without a backbone.
What is an Invertebrate.
The way animals act or what they do.
What is Behavior.
An animal that eats only plants.
What is a Herbivore .
A group of animals living closely together.
Colony.
A large group of small animals moving together.
What is a Swarm.
An animal whose body temperature changes with the outside air.
What is Cold-blooded.
The way animals and plants are connected by what they eat.
What is the Food Chain/Food Web
An animal that hunts and eats other animals.
What is a Predator.
A kind of animal that might disappear soon.
What is Endangered.
Something an animal just knows how to do without learning it.
What is Instinct.
An animal with a backbone.
What is a Vertebrate.
The study of ocean animals and plants.
What is Marine Biology.
An animal that eats plants and other animals.
What is an Omnivore.
A kind of animal that no longer exists.
What is Extinct.
When animals travel from one place to another each year.
What is Migration.
A group of animals or plants that are the same kind.
What is Species.
The body parts or things you can see about an animal.
What is Physical Characteristics.
An animal that gets hunted or eaten.
What is prey.
A living thing from long ago that today’s animals came from.
What is Ancestor.
Using sound to find things, like whales and dolphins do.
What is Echolocation.
An animal that keeps its body warm all the time.
What is Warm-blooded.