Equipment/Technology
Sea Turtles
The Coast
Flora and Fauna
The Ocean
100
This equipment allows you to visit the underwater world by making it possible to breathe, see and move comfortably while below the surface. 
What is SCUBA gear?
100
The number of different sea turtles found off Georgia's coast.
What is FIVE?
100
A long narrow island lying parallel and close to the mainland, protecting the mainland from erosion and storms.
What is a barrier island?
100
The easy descriptions of flora and fauna.
What are plants and animals?
100
All five of the Earth's Oceans.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic?
(in order from largest to smallest)
200
The meaning of the acronym SCUBA.
What is Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus?
200
Names of the 5 sea turtles found off Georgia's coast.
What are Loggerhead, Leatherback, Hawksbill, Green and Kemps Ridley?
200
The force that causes sand dunes to develop.
What is wind?
200
Plankton consisting of microscopic plants
What is Phytoplankton?
Phytoplankton produces oxygen for other organisms and is often eaten by other organisms.
200
This is the most common cause of surface waves in the ocean.
What is Wind?
Anything that causes water to move can cause a wave: earthquake, underwater landslides, changes in atmospheric pressure, underwater volcanic eruptions, the movement of ships or even a fish jumping.
300
This equipment first allowed humans to explore the ocean and the technology behind it continues to be used today.
What is a diving bell?
(submersible is also acceptable)
300
This is the largest sea turtle found off the Georgia coast and on Earth!
What is the leatherback sea turtle?
300
The gravitational pull between the Earth and the Moon causes this phenomenon.
What are the tides?
Georgia has two high tides and two low tides each day (slightly more than six hours apart).
300
Microscopic animals that swim or drift near the surface of aquatic environments.
What is Zooplankton?
300
The term for the highest point on a wave.
What is the crest?
400
This technology uses sound waves to explore and map the ocean.
What is SONAR?
Sonar, short for Sound Navigation and Ranging, is helpful for exploring and mapping the ocean because sound waves travel farther in the water than do radar and light waves.
400
The most common sea turtle found on and off the Georgia coast.
What is the Loggerhead sea turtle?
400
The term used when describing the position on land level with surface of nearby ocean or sea.
What is Sea Level?
400
The name of a seaweed that grows unattached to the ocean bottom off the coast of Georgia.
What is Sargassum?
Clumps of it in the open ocean serve as places to hide for some animals and as a structure for others to attach on to.
400
The term for the valley between two waves.
What is the trough?
500
Besides SONAR, SCUBA, and diving bells (submersibles), name other equipment/technology used to explore the ocean.
What are ROVs (remotely operated vehicles), buoys, and water column samplers?
500
This is the smallest of the five types of sea turtles living off the Georgia coast.
What is the Kemps Ridley sea turtle?
500
The term used for the line along which a large body of water meets the land.
What is the Shoreline?
500
Sticky little crustaceans related to crabs, lobsters and shrimp that produces a fast curing "cement" that helps them stick to things such as boats, piers, rocks, buoys and even whales.
What are barnacles?
500
The vertical distance between a wave's crest and its trough.
What is wave height?