Ocean Features and Life
This is a long range of mountains found in the middle of the ocean floor
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
What is an example of a producer in the following food chain:
Sun->Phytoplankton->Sardines->Albacore Tuna
What is the phytoplankton?
This is the ocean zone that receives the most light and warmth from the sun.
What is the sunlight zone?
This is the name of your teacher.
What is Mr. McAuley
(there are only 24 unique questions on the test but Jeopardy needs 25)
Is the following natural landform only in the ocean? or on land and the ocean?
Trench
Ocean
The edge of a continent that is under shallow water is called this.
What is the continental shelf?
What is an example of a consumer in the following food chain:
Sun->Phytoplankton->Sardines->Albacore Tuna
Sardines or Tuna
The twilight zone is where many organisms have this ability.
What is bioluminescence?
This is on the test twice. Remember that the twilight zone has many bioluminescent organisms.
Use the food web drawn on the whiteboard to write the order in which energy transfers.
Answers may vary but should start with Phytoplankton.
Example: Phytoplankton-> Market Squid -> Albacore Tuna
Is the following landform only in the ocean? or on land and the ocean?
Mountain
Both!
What is the biblical view of bioluminescence?
God created organisms with the ability to produce their own light.
This animal helps an coral reef stay clean because it eats plants that grow on the reef.
What is the parrotfish?
This is the ocean zone that is near freezing all the time.
What is the dark zone?
Explain the biblical worldview on God's creation of sea animals.
God created sea animals with what they need to survive. God gave each creature what it needs for its environment.
Is the following landform only in the ocean? or on land and the ocean?
Valley
Both!
List two ways that bioluminescence benefits organisms.
Answers will vary. Test answers: Attract prey and Confuse or startle predators.
This sea creature is protected by the sea urchin as it takes the urchin to new places.
What is the carrier crab?
This is small bits of plants and animals that have died near the surface of the ocean and sink through the deep waters.
What is marine snow?
Examples: Clownfish and anemones eating each other's prey. Parrotfish cleaning a coral reef for food. The carrier crab helping an urchin move and using the urchin for protection.
Is the following landform only in the ocean? or on land and the ocean?
Continental Slope
Ocean Only
List two ways that the Rat-tail fish is designed to survive in the dark zone of the ocean.
It moves very slowly to save energy, and it has taste buds on its fins to find prey in the dark.
The sea anemone both protects this fish and is protected by this fish.
What is the clownfish?
Explain how bioluminescence benefits the bigfin reef squid in the twilight zone.
The bigfin reef squid uses its light to attract prey. The squid can also flash its light quickly to scare predators.
The Rattail fish moves slowly to save energy and not need to eat much. It also uses taste buds on the fin to find food in the dark.
Is the following landform only in the ocean? or on land and the ocean?
Plain
Both!