Shallow Seas
Shallow seas are characterized by:
A.) Their size
B.) What species make-up their environment
C.) What the seafloor looks like.
What is C?
Often delicate this seaweed look like leaves of land plants like lettuce.
What is green kelp/seaweed?
Sea Otters are apart of what family?
What is the weasel family?
True or False. Sea urchins belong to the same group as sea stars, sand dollars, sea lilies, and sea cucumbers.
What is True?
What is Rocky Seabed?
Found in dimmer waters and shady tide books this seaweed helps build coral reefs.
What is red seaweed/kelp?
Name 5 preferred diet for sea otters
How fast can a sea urchin move?
What is 1 to 2 inches per minute?
This environment, constantly being reshaped by currents and waves, offers an ideal hiding place for species who can burrow in the sand.
What is Sandy plain?
True or False. Seaweed live by absorbing the energy of sunlight and using it to make food by a process called photosynthesis.
What is true?
True or False. Sea otters are among the many aquatic animals that have blubber.
What is False? Unlike most aquatic animals, sea otters do NOT have blubber but a thick underfur.
If flipped upside down, urchins can right themselves through specialized movements of which spines?
What are spines on the oral side OR spatula shaped spines?
This habitat provides food for grazing sea creatures and serves as a nursery and a shelter from predators for many smaller species.
What is Seagrass meadow?
Balloonlike sacs (also known as bladers) contain this mixture which makes them float.
What is Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Carbon Dioxide?
If you ate like an otter, you would need to eat how many hamburgers everyday
What is 24 hamburgers? (This is a quarter of its own weight).
The tiny pores the sea urchin's spines protrude from is called what.
What is a test?
This environment is found in tropical waters and provides a stable and protective habitat for thousands of tropical fish and invertebrate species.
What is Coral reef?
Giant kelp can grow how many inches in a single day?
What is 24 inches?
Sea otters have the densest fur of any animal. There are around how many hairs in a space the size of a quarter?
What is 1 million hairs?
Sea urchins usually eat drifting seaweed, but when there are a lot of urchins, they will also go after the kelp. What part of the kelp do they chew away at making the kelp break free and float away?
What is the holdfast?