Krill Level
Water covers this percentage of the Earth's surface
*must be within 3% of correct answer*
What is 71%?
These animals live in or on coral reef, name 3
What are (fish, sponges, lobsters, eels, seahorse, mantaray, clams, sea turtles, coral, shrimp, jellyfish, etc)?
This color penetrates the deepest into ocean waters
What is Blue?
This is what fish use to breathe underwater
What are gills?
These tiny creatures live on coral by the hundreds and thousands
What are polyps
The world oceans make up this percentage of the Earth's water
*must be within 3% of correct answer*
What is 96.5%
These are the 3 most common types of coral reef
What are the barrier reef, atoll reef, and frings reef?
This is considered the deepest part of the ocean discovered so far
What is the Marianna Trench?
This is a creature with a backbone/spine
What is a vertebrate?
This is a creature without a backbone/spine
What is an invertebrate?
There are 3 parts of a wave, name 1 of them
What is a trough, crest, or trench?
This is made of hundreds and thousands of tiny coral creatures called polyps
These 6 colors make up the visible light spectrum
What are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo?
This animal is known as the smallest in the ocean
What is zooplankton?
This animal is currently known as the largest marine mammal in the ocean.
What is the blue whale?
These 5 oceans make up the world's oceans, name all 5
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans?
Parasitism, Commensalism, and Mutualism represent this type of relationship
What is a symbiotic relationship?
This is the production and emission of light by a living organism without using heat
What is bioluminescence?
This fin currently serves as the stabilizer for a fish
What is the dorsal fin?
These animals are examples of marine mammals
What is a (polar bear, blue whale, orca, walrus, sea otter, dugong, etc)?
This is a force that affects a moving object over a rotating body. Because of this force objects do not travel in a straight line; instead they are deflected in a curved path.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This is the largest and longest reef system in the world, which has experienced some of the most severe effects caused by coral bleaching and climate change
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
The ocean is generally divided into three zones which are named based on the amount of sunlight they receive: the euphotic, disphotic, and aphotic zones.
Not to be confused with the old TV show this is the nickname for the disphotic zone
**DAILY DOUBLE**
What is the Twilight Zone?
This organ keeps fish from sinking
What is a swim bladder?
This is a long-term interaction between members of different species that often benefits one or both organisms
What is a symbiotic relationship?