Name the Zones
Aquatic life in the Midnight Zone have slow metabolisms, small muscles and grow very ______.
Slowly
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).
Photophores are what?
The concentrated spotlight production in the skin of bioluminescent animals.
True or False. Scientists believe green sea turtles diet has nothing to do with their color.
False. Scientists believe these green foods give the sea turtle’s fat its green color
They look fierce, but are actually gentle herbivores, surviving exclusively on ____________.
algae & seaweed
True or False. The Twilight Zone is greatly devoid of life.
What is False. Recent studies suggest that the biomass of fish in the twilight zone may be 10x greater than thought -- more than in all the rest of the ocean combined.
Coral colony are large groups of tiny animals called polyps living together, connected by living tissue. The polyps secrete a mineral called _____________, which forms the hard skeleton that gives the colony its shape.
What is Calcium Carbonate?
True or False. A female Anglerfish will carry no more than 3 males on her body.
What is False. Carry 6 or more males.
It is estimated that only _____ out of 1,000 hatchlings survives to be an adult.
A.) 10
B.) 5
C.) 1
Marine iguanas typically spend only a few minutes underwater eating but can spend up to _____ minutes at a time submerged.
30 minutes
_______ of the ocean's water lies in the midnight zone.
What is 90%?
Up to _____% of the white sand found on some beaches in Hawaii and the Caribbean is made of the ground-up coral that these fish leave behind.
What is 70%?
How do Dumbo Octopus propel themselves through the water?
A.) By expelling water forcefully from their siphons -- a process called jet propulsion
B.) By flapping their strong fins
B.
The flatback sea turtle can only be found on the coast of what country?
Australia
Marine Iguana are found only in the _______ Islands.
Galapagos Islands.
Why do we never see Midnight Zone aquatic life in aquariums?
Most creatures of the deep can survive only a few hours at sea level (the drop in pressure messes up cell-to-cell communication and causes paralysis), and any decompression can be fatal.
True or False. Sea urchins belong to the same group as sea stars, sand dollars, sea lilies, and sea cucumbers.
What is True?
Anglerfish mouths are so big and their bodies so pliable, they can swallow prey up to _______ to their own size?
What is twice?
How many species of sea turtle are there?
A.) 7
B.) 8
C.) 12
A.) 7
Marine iguanas can dive more than ____ underwater.
A.) 100 feet
B.) 80 feet
C.) 65 feet
Shallow seas are no more than __________ ft deep.
What is 660 ft deep?
A resting manatee can remain submerged for up to how many minutes?
What is 15 minutes?
Helmet Jellies have simple sensory ______ that detect changes in light in place of brains and eyes.
What are "Bulbs"?
True or False. Sand temperature is very important in determining the gender of a sea turtle.
True
Marine iguanas “_________” excess salt their body collects while underwater through a nasal gland.
Sneeze out