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The World of Oceans 🌊
The World of Oceans 🌊
What is a SEA?
Part of the ocean partially enclosed by land.
In this relationship, one organism benefits while the other is unaffected.
Commensalism
This trait helps deep-sea animals blend in, attract mates, or warn predators.
Color adaptation
THIS is an animal with a spine.
Vertebrate
This harmful activity removes too many fish from the ocean.
Overfishing
What are the world’s OCEANS?
Examples include the Arctic, Indian, Pacific, Atlantic & Southern
Examples of THIS include Kingdom, Phylum, Order, Class, Family, Genus & Species.
TAXONOMIC ranks/categories
Many deep-sea creatures are this color because it appears black in deep water.
Red
Examples of THIS include Blue Whale, Sea Lion, Narwhal & Beluga.
Marine mammals
This material makes up most of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Plastic
Trench, Crest and Trough are part of this.
A WAVE
These are the 3 main types of coral reefs.
Fringing, barrier, and atoll reefs
THIS is a chemical reaction in a microbe or animal body that creates light without heat.
BIOLUMINESCENCE
Fish use these organs to extract oxygen from water.
Gills
This colorful marine habitat is turning white and dying due to warming waters.
Coral reefs
This effect causes moving water and air to curve due to Earth's rotation.
The Coriolis effect
Clownfish, sea turtles, moray eels, parrotfish, and sea urchins
ANIMALS of CORAL REEFS
Examples of THIS include Red Coloration, Giantism, Dwarfism & Transparency.
ADAPTATIONS of DEEP SEA ANIMALS
In the marine food web, this organism makes its own food via photosynthesis.
Producer
This global issue causes sea levels to rise and coral bleaching.
Climate change
This is the reason oceans contain salt.
Erosion of rocks and runoff of minerals
These algae live inside coral and provide nutrients through photosynthesis.
Zooxanthellae
IT is the deepest place in the ocean, reaching 10,994 meters.
MARIANA TRENCH
This tiny creature is considered the smallest marine animal.
zooplankton
This practice helps protect marine life by limiting fishing and pollution.
Marine conservation
What are 9 minerals found in seawater?
THESE includes Chloride, Magnesium, Sulfate, and Sodium.
Coral belongs to this animal phylum.
What is Cnidaria
This adaptation allows deep-sea animals to survive crushing forces at extreme depths.
Pressure resistance
In the marine food web, this organism breaks down dead matter.
Decomposer
These protected areas help marine ecosystems recover.
Marine reserves
This vast body of salt water covers most of Earth and connects continents.
Ocean
This substance forms the hard structure of coral.
Calcium carbonate
This zone lies between sunlight and total darkness in the ocean.
Twilight Zone
This organ helps fish stay buoyant in water.
Swim bladder
Lots of plastic, chemicals, and trash entering the ocean.
Marine pollution
This is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth.
Pacific Ocean
This type of symbiosis benefits both organisms involved.
Mutualism
This refers to the range of light wavelengths visible to the human eye.
Visible Light Spectrum
THIS is part of a fish that rests on the fish’s back and serves as a stabilizer.
DORSAL FIN
This greenhouse gas dissolves into seawater, causing ocean acidification and harming marine life.
Carbon dioxide
These are large movements of water that flow through the ocean
Ocean currents
THIS is a tiny animal that, after multiplying, makes up a coral reef.
CORAL POLYP
THEY are limited to Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue & Indigo.
COLORS of the VISIBLE LIGHT SPECTRUM
THIS is an animal that eats plants and other animals in a food web.
CONSUMER
This term describes the loss of marine species and habitats.
Biodiversity loss