Animals
Often called Sea Stars, they are well known because of their star shapes.
What Is a Starfish?
The common name for countless species of marine plants and algae that grow in the ocean as well as in rivers, lakes, and other water bodies. (A type of algae)
What Is Seaweed?
Areas where water covers the soil, or is present either at or near the surface of the soil all year or for varying periods of time during the year, including during the growing season.
What Is a Wetland?
Light from the sun.
What Is Sunlight?
A soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda.
What Is an Octopus?
A species of red algae which grows abundantly along the rocky parts of the Atlantic coast of Europe and North America.
What Is Sea Moss?
A relatively large body of slowly moving or standing water that occupies an inland basin of appreciable size
What Is a Lake?
A clear liquid substance that is consumable, and is known as H₂O.
What Is Water?
Shark that has an unusual and distinctive head structure. It's head is flattened and literally looks like a hammer.
What Is a Hammerhead Shark?
Frogs like to hop on them. They are commonly found in freshwater ecosystems like ponds and lakes.
What Is a Water Lily?
The area where the ocean meets the land between high and low tides.
What Is an Intertidal Zone?
The degree of hotness or coldness is measured by a thermometer with a numerical scale.
What Is Temperature?
Also known as a killer whale, a toothed whale that belongs to the oceanic dolphin family. It is the only extant species in the genus Orcinus and is recognizable by its black-and-white patterned body.
What Is an Orca?
This thing forms a Coral reef biome that many different aquatic organisms live together.
What is Sea Coral?
A biome in which salt water and fresh water meet.
What Is an Estuary?
Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth.
What Is Food/Energy?
The largest animal on the planet, weighing up to 400,000 pounds (approximately 33 elephants) and reaching up to 98 feet in length.
What Is a (Blue) Whale?
A rare and unusual aquatic plant found in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Its delicate white flowers float atop the water, creating a mesmerizing display.
What Is Lobb's Aquatic Buttercup?
A type of biome that can take up to 10,000 years to form.
What are Coral Reefs?
The interaction of individuals that vie for a common resource that is in limited supply.
What Is Competition?