Sea Creatures
"Reptile of the Sea" that has flippers and lays eggs on sandy beaches
What is sea turtles?
The most diverse ocean ecosystem
What is a coral reef?
The object that causes tides on earth
What is the moon?
True/False: Peguins lay eggs
What is true?
This process helps turn old things into new things
What is recycling?
The largest animal in the ocean
What is a blue whale?
The object you can compare the marsh to because it soaks up water and helps prevent flooding
What is a sponge?
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: Most of the world's population lives in coastal areas.
What is True?
Percentage of the ocean that has been explored
What is 20%?
Creature you can identify by markings on dorsal fin
Three creatures found in a tide pool ecosystem
What is sea stars, sea anemones, and crabs?
other acceptable answers are barnacles, snails (whelks and other shelled species), mussels, oysters, sea cucumbers, urchins
What is currents?
Most of the freshwater on earth is in the ocean.
What is false?
Most of the freshwater on earth is frozen in the glaciers. The ocean does supply freshwater through rain after going through the water cycle.
Three services the ocean provides for humans.
What is oxygen, food, and energy?
other acceptable answers: minerals, jobs, medicines, transportation highway, cultural heritage, recreation, discovery, inspiration.
Three creatures that might be found attached to a floating dock
What are barnacles, oysters, and mussels?
other acceptable answers: tunicates (Sea squirts), algae, shrimp, crabs, sponges
Ocean ecosystem that have "underwater towers" of an algae plant that provide habitat for species like sea otters, urchins, sea lions, and whales. The water is quite chilly here!
What is a kelp forest?
What is FIVE ocean zones?
True/False: Plastic will eventually decompose completely and return nutrients to the environment.
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?
The adaptation that allows animals to find food/navigate in the deep dark ocean
What is bioluminescence?
What is a hydrothermal vent?
The creature responsible for creating oxygen in the ocean?
What is plankton?
True/False: Seashells and corals are made from the same material.
bonus points for name of material
What is true? (Calcium Carbonate)
Molecule that is responsible for trapping heat in our atmosphere but in excess causes global warming
What is carbon dioxide?