Marine Mammals
What is a pinniped or sea otter?
A frozen tube of ice with extremely cold and salty water.
What is a brinicle?
Very important component of the food chain that requires carbon dioxide, water and the sun.
What are phytoplankton?
Coastal areas that are depleted of oxygen.
What is a dead zone?
Excessive nutrients in a waterway.
What is eutrophication?
What is a sea otter?
What is 200 mph?
The body of a seaweed.
What is a thallus?
This supralittoral area is not very biodiverse.
What is the spray zone?
Farming marine and freshwater species on land or water.
What is aquaculture?
At birth, this calf measure seven metres long and weigh three tonnes.
What is a blue whale calf?
What is an elephant seal?
The class of brown algae.
What is Phaeophyta?
Dauphin Island is this type of estuary.
What is bar-built?
The overexploitation of the Trufulla trees in Dr. Seuss's Lorax is an example of this sustainability concept. Very well the reason for the decline in Bluefin Tuna fish stocks.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
Cachalots are not the very largest whales but what do they have that is larger than that of any other animal on earth today.
What is a brain?
No native people and it is the only continent with no time zone.
What is Antarctica?
Giant Kelp has this characteristic.
What is the largest of all seaweeds?
Organism that can regulate salinity.
What is an osomoregulator?
A long spear used to catch prey.
What is a harpoon?
High concentrations of hemoglobin and myoglobin in muscles allow this process.
What is store oxygen?
What is a tardigrade?
This type of pigment absorbs red and blue light.
What is chlorophyll?
Bull shark is this which allows the species to migrate from the sea to the river and back.
What is euryhaline?
A fisher that fishes soley to feed his or her family.
What is a subsistent fisher?