The Big Blue
Vocabulary
O.Y.O's
Vertebrates and Invertebrates
The zones, the zones, can you name the zones
100
The largest body of water the is 166,000,000 sq. km. in area.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
Water that is less salty than seawater but saltier than fresh water.
What is brackish?
100
The two most commonly harvested groups of ocean creatures by fisheries.
What are finfish and shellfish?
100
At least three fish body shapes.
What is box shaped, disc shaped, flat, ray-like, tapered, elongated, and eel-like?
100
The area of shoreline between high and low tides.
What is the intertidal zone?
200
The color that has the deepest penetration in water.
What is blue?
200
The process that carries colder, nutrient-rich water upward to a more shallow depth.
What is upwelling?
200
You have two identical light sticks, you place one in warm water and the other in cold water. Which one will glow the longest.
What is the light stick in cold water?
200
Example of a marine Arthropod.
What are shrimp, lobster, or crab?
200
Layer of the ocean's surface into which light can penetrate allowing photosynthesis to occur.
What is the photic zone?
300
The way in which the rotation of the earth bends the path of winds and resulting sea currents.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
300
A network of water-filled canals in echinoderms, used for locomotion and feeding.
What is a water vascular system?
300
The wave action on a shelf area with very fine sediments.
What is mild wave action?
300
One has an external ears and can walk on land, the other can only crawl on land.
What are the differences between sea lions, and seals/
300
Noticeable bands of organisms living within a certain range in the intertidal zone.
What is vertical zonation?
400
A type of reef that occurs at a distance from the coast.
What is a barrier reef?
400
The converting of gaseous nitrogen into useful organic nitrogen substances.
What is nitrogen fixation?
400
Name the trophic levels in this food chain; phytoplankton are eaten by krill,which are eaten by a baleen whale.
What are producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer?
400
Mussels, giant clams, and scallops.
What are bivalves?
400
Zone that contains the temperature division called the thermocline.
What is the mesopelagic zone?
500
*****DAILY DOUBLE***** The nanoplankton that help give the ocean a turquoise apperance.
What are Coccolithophores?
500
Marine organisms that swim strongly enough to move against the ocean current.
What is Nekton?
500
Countershading is considered a form of disguise, but what other category can it be placed
What is camouflauge?
500
******DAILY DOUBLE******* The only marine animal Ms. Cari was interested seeing at GA Aquarium.
What is the whale shark?
500
The area of the ocean that reaches to about 20,000 feet deep.
What is the abyssopelagic zone?
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