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The World of Oceans 🌊
The World of Oceans 🌊
This is the part of the ocean partially enclosed by land.
What is a SEA?
In this relationship, one organism benefits while the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
This trait helps deep-sea animals blend in, attract mates, or warn predators.
What is color adaptation?
THIS is an animal with a spine.
What is a vertebrate?
This harmful activity removes too many fish from the ocean.
What is overfishing?
Examples include the Arctic, Indian, Pacific, Atlantic & Southern
What are the world’s OCEANS?
Examples of THIS include Kingdom, Phylum, Order, Class, Family, Genus & Species.
What are the TAXONOMIC ranks/categories?
Many deep-sea creatures are this color because it appears black in deep water.
What is red?
Examples of THIS include Blue Whale, Sea Lion, Narwhal & Beluga.
What are marine mammals?
This material makes up most of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
What is plastic?
Trench, Crest and Trough are part of this.
What is a WAVE?
These are the three main types of coral reefs.
What are fringing, barrier, and atoll reefs?
THIS is a chemical reaction in a microbe or animal body that creates light without heat.
What is BIOLUMINESCENCE?
Fish use these organs to extract oxygen from water.
What are gills?
This colorful marine habitat is turning white and dying due to warming waters.
What are coral reefs?
This effect causes moving water and air to curve due to Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Clownfish, sea turtles, moray eels, parrotfish, and sea urchins
Who are the ANIMALS of CORAL REEFS?
Examples of THIS include Red Coloration, Giantism, Dwarfism & Transparency.
What are ADAPTATIONS of DEEP SEA ANIMALS?
In the marine food web, this organism makes its own food via photosynthesis.
What is a producer?
This global issue causes sea levels to rise and coral bleaching.
What is climate change?
This is the reason oceans contain salt.
What is the erosion of rocks and runoff of minerals?
These algae live inside coral and provide nutrients through photosynthesis.
What are zooxanthellae?
IT is the deepest place in the ocean, reaching 10,994 meters.
What is the MARIANA TRENCH?
This tiny creature is considered the smallest marine animal.
What is a zooplankton?
This practice helps protect marine life by limiting fishing and pollution.
What is marine conservation?
THESE includes Chloride, Magnesium, Sulfate, and Sodium.
What are nine minerals found in seawater?
Coral belongs to this animal phylum.
What is Cnidaria?
This adaptation allows deep-sea animals to survive crushing forces at extreme depths.
What is pressure resistance?
In the marine food web, this organism breaks down dead matter.
What is a decomposer?
These protected areas help marine ecosystems recover.
What are marine reserves?
This vast body of salt water covers most of Earth and connects continents.
What is an ocean?
This substance forms the hard structure of coral.
What is calcium carbonate?
This zone lies between sunlight and total darkness in the ocean.
What is the Twilight Zone?
This organ helps fish stay buoyant in water.
What is a swim bladder?
Lots of plastic, chemicals, and trash entering the ocean.
What is marine pollution?
This is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This type of symbiosis benefits both organisms involved.
What is mutualism?
This refers to the range of light wavelengths visible to the human eye.
What is the Visible Light Spectrum?
THIS is part of a fish that rests on the fish’s back and serves as a stabilizer.
What is a DORSAL FIN?
This greenhouse gas dissolves into seawater, causing ocean acidification and harming marine life.
What is carbon dioxide?
These are large movements of water that flow through the ocean
What are ocean currents?
THIS is a tiny animal that, after multiplying, makes up a coral reef.
What is a CORAL POLYP?
THEY are limited to Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue & Indigo.
What are the COLORS of the VISIBLE LIGHT SPECTRUM?
THIS is an animal that eats plants and other animals in a food web.
What is a CONSUMER?
This term describes the loss of marine species and habitats.
What is biodiversity loss?