Sea Creatures
The largest animal in the ocean
What is a blue whale?
The number of world oceans
What is ONE global ocean?
There is one big ocean with many different ocean basins like the Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Arctic, Indian.
True/False: Sharks can NOT be identified by their tooth shape.
The system scientists use to identify species based on characteristics when the species is unknown.
What is a dichotomous key?
The adaptation that allows animals to find food/navigate in the deep dark ocean
What is bioluminescence?
The area where freshwater rivers and streams meet the salwater ocean and create brackish water. Very productive ecosystems that are breeding/feeding grounds and migration pitstops.
What is an estuary?
The celestial body(ies) responsible for tides on earth
What is the SUN and MOON?
True/False: Most of the world's population lives in coastal areas.
What is True?
Percentage of the ocean that has been explored
What is 20%?
What is calcium carbonate?
These two colors are not visible at the bottom of the ocean in the aphotic zones
What is red and orange?
Processes that help build barrier islands (2 of them)
What is erosion and deposition?
True/False: Plastic will eventually decompose completely and return nutrients to the environment.
What is false?
Plastic never fully decomposes only breaksdown over time into smaller pieces called microplastics, and can cause harm to animals and human health.
Event that is causing rising temperatures and sea levels, ocean acification, melting ice caps, and extreme weather events
What is climate change?
Three creatures that might be found attached to a floating dock or docked ship?
What are barnacles, oysters, and mussels?
other acceptable answers: tunicates (Sea squirts), algae, shrimp, crabs, sponges
Three ecosystem services the marsh wetlands provide.
What is filtration (maintaining healthy water quality), absorption (provide a barrier to mainland for flood waters and absorb excess water), and food supply (provide large amounts of seafood i.e. blue crab)?
The number of zones that classify how light is penetrated through the ocean
What is FIVE ocean zones?
True/False: Only a specific suborder of marine mammals can echolocate.
What is true? Only Odontocetes (toothed whales) can echolocate. Lots of marine animals make noises but are primarily used for social reasons, whereas echolocation is used for feeding strategies.
Molecule that is responsible for trapping heat in our atmosphere but in excess causes global warming
What is carbon dioxide?
Sensory organ found in fish along the entire length of their body that helps sense pressure changes and movement in the water around them.
What is a lateral line?
These ecosystems are characterized by "trapped seawater" but are abundant with sea creatures like sea anemones, sea stars, crabs, oysters, snails, barnacles, urchins, mussels and more. The inhabitants of this ecosystem must endure constantly changing conditions multiple (hint: 4 times) times a day.
What is a tide/tidal pool?
Percentage of water on earth that is freshwater
What is 3%?
97% saltwater
3% freshwater
2.5% of freshwater is frozen
0.5% available to use
True/False: small fish and crustaceans are at the base of the ocean food web.
What is false? Phytoplankton are the base of the ocean food web.
Four services the ocean provides for humans.
What is oxygen, food, and energy, jobs
other acceptable answers: minerals, medicines, transportation highway, cultural heritage, recreation, discovery, inspiration.