Ocean Habitats
The habitat impacted by low and high tide
What is the Intertidal Zone (or mudflats)
What keeps arctic aquatic animals from freezing?
What is blubber, fat, or lard?
The percentage of freshwater on Earth compared to salt water.
What is 3%?
Has no light
What is aphotic?
Name a deep sea animal/fish
What is angler fish, etc.?
What are coral or oyster reefs, mangrove forests, and estuaries?
Has no backbone or spine
What is an invertebrate?
The stage in the water cycle when water flows into the ground
What is infiltration?
Includes the open ocean and is top most layer
What is Pelagic Zone?
Name an animal found in the open ocean
What is dolphin, shark, whale, sea turtle, etc.?
It's 3x better at collecting carbon than rainforests and has sea turtles
What is sea grass meadows?
Name a colony organism
What is Portuguese Man O War (Jellyfish) or Coral
When plants give off water vapor (water cycle).
What is evapotranspiration?
Lowest most zone
What is Hadal?
Name an invertebrate
What is a sea urchin, bugs, sea stars, etc.?
Where freshwater rivers and saltwater oceans meet
What is estuaries (or salt marshes)?
Name three microscopic organisms
Why can water striders walk on water?
What is surface tension?
Is impacted by low and high tide
What is intertidal?
Name a vertebrate
What is human, dog, fish, etc.?
Has dolphins and not a lot of activity
What is open oceans?
VERY HARD: Eukaryotes and BLANK
What is Prokaryotes?
The solid form of this liquid is less dense
What is water/ice?
Below intertidal zone
What is subtidal?
Name the location of our field trip we went on.
What is Asylum Lake?