FISH
MARINE REPTILES
MARINE BIRDS
MARINE MAMMALS
OCEAN ISSUES
100
FOUR characteristics of ALL fish
What are two-chambered hearts, breathe with gills, lay eggs and external fertilization
100
This gland helps sea turtles get rid of excess salts.
What is LACRIMAL GLANDS?
100
Percentage of all birds that are true marine birds.
What is 3%?
100
Marine mammals evolved from these
What is LAND MAMMALS
100
The toothless organization which regulates whaling.
What is the IWC?
200
There are only two members of this class: lampreys and hagfish
What is AGNATHA?
200
The only marine lizard
What is the MARINE IGUANA?
200
Animals that birds evolved from
What is REPTILES?
200
THREE characteristics of mammals, in general
What is warm-blooded; four-chambered heart, hair/fur, internal fertilization, give birth to LIVE young, feed their young milk
200
TWO species affected by plastic debris in our ocean.
What is sea turtles and albatross?
300
Sharks and Rays belong to this class.
What is CHONDRYCHTHES?
300
Three characteristics of reptiles, in general.
What is a three-chambered heart, eggs with a tough shell, and internal fertilization? Breathe with lungs; scales; cold-blooded
300
THREE facts about the lifecycle of an albatross?
What is mates for life; courtship dance, hatchling, fledgling, lays one egg, parents alternate care, spend months or years at sea, return to colony to breed,
300
FOUR orders of marine mammals and an example species from each.
What is pinnipedia EX = any seal,sea lion or walrus; Carnivora EX = sea otter or polar bear; Sirenia, EX = dugong or manatee; Cetacea = any whale, dolphin or porpoise
300
TWO affects of ocean acidification.
What is destruction of coral reefs, death of invertebrates, destruction of food chain
400
Members of this class have an operculum.
What is OSTEICHTHYES?
400
The THREE classes of marine reptiles and an example species from each.
What is chelonia, example = sea turtles; squamata, example = sea snakes/marine iguana; crocodila; example = salt water crocodile
400
TWO major differences between penguins and other marine birds.
What is dense bones and loss of the ability to fly or wings modified into flippers
400
Name and description of how the attachment to shrimp trawling nets that saves sea turtles.
What is TED and it is an escape hatch at the back of the net that turtles can slip out of net from
500
These TWO adaptions make skates and rays well suited for life on sandy bottoms
What is a flattened body and gills on the side of the head?
500
Three adaptions of sea turtles to marine life and three adaptations of sea snakes to marine life.
What is flippers, lacrimal glands, streamlined bodies and what is a flattened tail section for paddling, salt-excreting glands under tongues;one long lung
500
Two characteristics and one example species from each of the following groups: tubenoses, gulls and terns, pelicans.
What is beak that is curved at the end, salt excreting gland on beak, excellent flyers/soarers, excellent sense of smell Ex = albatross, petral, shearwaters; good runners, live near shore, buoyant swimmers Ex = any gull or tern; throat pouches; webbed feet; good divers; pelican or cormorant
500
FOUR differences between seals and sea lions. Write in chart form: SEALS vs. SEA LIONS
What is external ear flap, long necks, rotatable front flippers, swim with back flippers, steer with front, no fur or claws on flippers
500
TWO causes of noise pollution in the ocean that affects whales, dolphins and porpoises the most.
What is sonar blasting and noise from shipping traffic
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