Octopuses
What is the life span of the Giant Pacific Octopus?
3-5 years
Invertebrates are different from fishes because they don't have ________?
Vertebrae (or a skeleton)
What is the largest species of Pacific salmon?
Chinook
The zone between the land and the sea at a beach, where you can find sea stars, hermit crabs, and Purple shore crabs, is called?
The intertidal zone
What was the name of our Octopus this year?
Ringo
What is the world's largest species of octopus?
The Giant Pacific Octopus
What food do green sea urchins eat?
Kelp
What food does the Buffalo Sculpin eat?
mussels, isopods, amphipods, crabs, and algae
What type of algae (sea weed) can form forests where urchins and sea otters can live?
Kelp
What kind of whales can you see on the Discovery Pier?
Orca whales, Humpback whales
The home of an octopus is called its _____?
Den
What is the phylum that sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers and sand dollars belong to?
Echinodermata (Echinoderms)
Males
This type of crab uses other species like sponges and algae for camoflage?
Decorator crab
What is the loudest animal on Earth?
The Sperm Whale
Respiration and locomotion
Invertebrates such as sea pens and barnacles use filter feeding to eat _____?
Plankton
What type of sculpin inhabits empty barnacle shells?
The Grunt Sculpin
What is the ecosystem called where a river meets the ocean?
An estuary
What is the world's largest ocean?
The Pacific Ocean, it covers 30% of the Earth.
Octopuses are in the phylum ________, making them related to other marine animals such as __________.
Octopuses are in the phylum mollusca, making them related to other marine animals such as snails, slugs, squid, clams (there can be many answers).
What is the largest of the commercially fished prawns in BC?
The spot prawn
This type of fish has no scales, is coated in a film of slime, and uses their modified pelvic fins as a sucker
The cling fish
What are the tree types of Orca whales that live in the waters around BC?
Offshore, resident, and transient Orcas
There is more known about the ______ than the bottom of the ocean.
There is more known about the moon than the bottom of the ocean.