History & People
Who is known as the Father of Marine Biology?
Who is Aristotle?
What is the average salinity of ocean water?
What is 35 parts per thousand (ppt)?
Define marine biology.
What is the scientific study of marine organisms and their saltwater environments?
Animals without a backbone are called ______.
What are invertebrates?
What does SCUBA allow marine biologists to do?
What is allowing scientists to directly observe and study marine organisms underwater?
What was Aristotle’s Ladder of Life (Scala Naturae)?
What is a classification system that ranked living and nonliving things from simple to complex?
What factor mainly drives surface ocean currents?
What is wind?
What is the difference between osmoconformers and osmoregulators?
What are osmoconformers matching their internal salinity to seawater, while osmoregulators control their internal salt balance?
Which phylum do sponges belong to?
What is Porifera?
What is an ROV and how is it different from an AUV?
What is an ROV controlled from the surface, while an AUV operates independently?
Which explorer’s voyages collected data that laid groundwork for marine biology?
Who is Captain James Cook?
Cold water is ______ dense than warm water. Fill in the blank and explain why.
What is more dense, because colder water molecules are closer together?
Name one adaptation that helps fish control buoyancy.
What is a swim bladder?
What are the stinging cells of cnidarians called?
What are cnidocytes?
How do oceanographic buoys help scientists?
What is collecting real-time data on temperature, salinity, waves, and weather?
What was the azoic hypothesis and who proposed it?
What is the idea that no life existed below certain ocean depths, proposed by Edward Forbes?
What is the thermocline?
What is the ocean layer where temperature changes rapidly with depth?
Why are phytoplankton important?
What are organisms that produce oxygen and form the base of marine food webs?
Name one adaptation that helps mollusks survive in their environment.
What is having a shell for protection or a muscular foot for movement?
What is environmental DNA (eDNA) used for?
What is detecting species presence using genetic material found in water?
Explain Charles Darwin’s coral reef theory.
What is the theory that coral reefs form as volcanic islands sink while coral grows upward, forming fringing reefs, barrier reefs, and atolls?
Which two celestial bodies cause tides?
What are the Moon and the Sun?
How do marine bacteria and viruses help ecosystems?
What is recycling nutrients and controlling population sizes?
How do echinoderms move?
What is using a water vascular system?
Name two ways marine biology impacts humans even if we don’t live near the ocean.
What are providing food, medicine, climate regulation, and economic benefits?