mobility
what a swimming animal is called
What is an aquatic animal
We have no backbones.
What is an invertebrate
I am the beginning of a river.
What is the mouth
I am a tide that happens during a new moon or full moon, making a high tide higher and a low tide lower than usual.
What is a spring tide
I am water that is not salty.
What is fresh water
What is nekton
We have backbones.
What is a vertebrate
Currents can be caused by wind, the amount of salt in the water, and.....
What is water temperature
I am a type of tide that happens when the sun's gravity works against the moon's gravity. I make high tides lower and low tides higher than usual.
What is a neap tide
I am the part of the continent that is underwater.
What is the continental shelf
I am an ocean animal that does not swim, but I scurry, crawl, hop, scoot, burrow or slither
I am a benthic animal
I am an example of a filter feeder. We are the "cleaning crew" of the water.
What is a sponge.
I am a tide where the water recedes from the shore.
What is low tide
I am the number of oceans our planet has.
What is five
I am the deep, dark ocean floor.
What is the abyssal plain
I come from the Latin word sessilis, which relates to sitting. I am a creature that move around in the ocean.
What is sessile
I am plankton that eats to get my food. Sometimes I eat phytoplankton.
I am zooplankton
I am a tide where the water comes way up on the shore.
What is high tide
What is a sea
I am a deep ocean creature that makes its own light which is called......
I am a type of animal that wanders or drifts in the ocean.
What is plankton.
I am plankton that uses the sun to make my own food.
What is phytoplankton
I am a deep ocean current and my name means heat and salt.
What is thermohaline
I am the place where a river meets with the ocean or sea.
What is an estuary
I am a zone in the abyss where no light ever reaches.
What is the midnight zone