Marine Life
They are nocturnal animals that feed at night using tentacles, and keep hidden during the day.
What are Cuttlefish?
These people created the world’s first shark sanctuary and have banned all commercial fishing from their waters. Only they are able to fish their waters using low impact, traditional fishing methods.
Who are Palauns?
The is the largest predatory fish that can grow to over 21 feet
What is a Great White Shark?
Coral reefs form in ____ waters near the equator and between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
What is warmer?
This is Nemo's best friend
Who is Dory?
These reef fish eat algae that cover the coral reef. The ______ has large teeth which are fused together to help it eat hard coral. They can change color to match their surroundings and hide from predators.
What are parrotfish?
People are learning how to grow corals in nurseries and then using those corals to restore reefs elsewhere.
How can people work to protect reefs worldwide?
This predator found in Palau, has a skeleton made of cartilage instead of bone
What is a Manta Ray?
Coral reefs have a lot of activity going on in them at all times. ___ percent of all of marine life lives on a coral reef. Reef structures serve as homes and restaurants for the creatures found there.
What is 25%?
Nemo is this type of fish
What is a clownfish?
The __ _______ is an important animal to the islands of Palau. Many ecological systems depend upon it as a food resource.
What is a sea cucumber?
Be mindful of the fish that you eat and make sure to eat fish that are sustainably harvested. Don’t purchase jewelry made with coral pieces. If you go snorkeling or diving near reefs, don’t touch the corals and be careful not to step on them or hit them with your feet. Teach other people what you have learned about corals.
What are some things that you can do to help coral reefs stay healthy and strong?
This type of fish form schools to improve their efficiency, and protect themselves from predators
What are Blue Stripe Snapper?
This _____ is an animal that has a hard skeleton filled with soft, fleshy parts called polyps. The polyps are like mini sea anemones.
What is coral?
Attina, Alana, Adella, Aquata, Arista and Andrina sing beautifully
Who are Ariel's sisters?
Twice each day, the jellyfish in the lake _____ from one side to the other. The jellyfish do this to get sunlight to their internal algae so that the algae can grow.
What is swim?
If you _____ it might eventually end up in our oceans.
What is litter?
This predator use nematocysts (stringing cells on tentacles) to catch their prey?
What is Sea Anemone?
There are over ___ species of coral, nine species of sea grass, and 2,000 species of fish in Palau.
What is 300?
Flotsom & Jetsom are a pair of trouble
What are the names of the two eels in the little mermaid?
Green and Hawksbill are the most common __ ____ found near Palau
What are sea turtles?
Conserve _____ – the less you waste, the less likely that liquid waste will end up in the ocean.
What is water?
A nocturnal predator which has developed a keen sense of smell due to poor eyesight, the ____ ___ feeds on damsel fish and cardinal fish hiding within the coral reefs.
What is a moray eel?
Just like on land, there are producers like phytoplankton, sea weed, sea grass, and kelp that can make food from sunlight. There are primary consumers or herbivores that eat the producers; some examples of herbivores are sea turtles, manatees, shrimp, and some fish. Secondary consumers are carnivores like sharks and sea snakes that eat primary consumers.
What are parts of a coral reef food web?
Despite their name, _____ aren't actually fish—they're invertebrates, or animals with no backbones
What are jellyfish?