Oceanography
Fish
Marine Mammals
The Ocean Floor
Invertebrate
100
The first man to make an orderly study of the sea
What is Matthew F. Maury
100
Special structures that fish use to "breath" under water
What is gills
100
The largest animal that ever lived
What is blue whale
100
Underwater land along the edges of continents
What is continental shelf
100
How many tenticles do octopuses and squids have?
What is 8 and 10
200
Another word for "paths of the seas"
What is currents
200
The largest fish of all
What is whale shark
200
Small, shrimplike animals that whales strain from the water using the baleen in their mouths
What is krill
200
The very bottom of the ocean
What is ocean floor
200
A jellyfish whose tentacles can be up to 100 feet long
What is Portuguese man-of-war
300
Broken pieces of rock that the sea is full of
What is sand
300
Tiny plants and animals that provide abundant food for large fish
What is plankton
300
Marine mammals breath through these
What is blowholes
300
Underwater land between the the continental shelf and ocean floor
What is continental slope
300
What an octopus uses to cut up its prey
What is a hard beak in its mouth
400
The three things used by oceanographers to study the ocean
What is scuba, submersible, undersea lab
400
These creatures have huge winglike fins
What is manta ray
400
Marine mammal with a blunt head that is often mistaken for a dolphin
What is porpoise
400
Long mountain ranges on the ocean floor
What is oceanic ridges
400
A very dangerous jellyfish found in Australia
What is sea wasp
500
Two things that the ocean does for man
What is provides drinking water and moderates the Earth's climate
500
The fiercest and most dangerous fish of all
What is great white shark
500
A substance that sperm whales produce in their intestine that was once used to make expensive perfumes
What is ambergris
500
Isolated underwater mountains
What is seamounts
500
The only known poisonous octopus
What is blue-ringed octopus
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