Kingdom Animalia
Frogs, toads, and salamanders belong to this group
What is Amphibia?
Sharks will take these to see if you are food
What are exploratory bites?
What is survive and reproduce?
Whales belong to this group of even-toed ungulates
What is Cetacea?
Corals share this group with jellies and hydras
What is Cnidaria?
Cephalo comes from the greek word for this
What is head?
This type of shark is the biggest fish in the ocean
What is the whale shark?
With this type of vision comes depth perception
What is binocular vision?
When doing this, whales send out sound waves, the sound waves hit stuff and reflect back to the whale allowing the whale to interpret information
What is echolocation?
Corals provide organisms with places to hide and reside, allowing for more biodiversity and a healthier reef. The relief and layers corals provide refers to its this
What is structural complexity?
Ragworms and leeches share the group Annelida with these other segmented worms
What are earthworms?
Sharks control the abundance of lower trophic levels in this type of trophic cascade
What is top-down?
Learning to ignore a stimulus over time is called this
What is habituation?
We used to think that this part of a whale is vestigial. Turns out it's not.
What is the pelvis?
A coral actively searching for suitable substrate to settle on is referred to as this kind of larva
What is a planula?
People seem to be fine with eating the marine members of this jointed foot phylum, but not fine with eating the terrestrial members
What is Arthropoda?
Sharks belong to this group of fishes
What is Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
When you alter a gene through artificial selection and you unintentionally alter another one, it was probably because of this
What is genetic linkage?
It is through this process that deep diving whales bring iron to the surface
What is the whale pump?
Animals active during dawn and dusk are referred to as this
What is crepuscular?
The oviparous mammals
What is monotremata (platypuses and echidnas)?
Mangrove forests are mainly being destroyed to be replaced with these types of farms
What are shrimp farms?
If a dog has to stand 20 feet away from something to see clearly what I can see from 100 feet away and I have perfect vision, then the dog's visual acuity is this
What is 20/100?
Narwhals share Monodontidae with these other whales, who don't have 1 tooth
What are belugas?
Spell the name of the organisms that live in the gastrodermis of corals providing them with 50-95% of their food through photosynthesis
What are zooxanthellae?