Ecology
a group of the same species in the same location at the same time
What is a population?
Bony fish have a backbone. This means that they are...
What is a vertebrate?
The special ability dolphins and toothed whales use to locate food and "see" underwater
What is echolocation?
The major ocean basin that surrounds Hawaii
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Most Intelligent mollusk
What is an octopus?
a collection of biotic factors in an area, a group of populations
What is a community?
This is the structure that helps bony fishes control their buoyancy.
What is the swim bladder?
After all the gelato, I feel as big as a Balaena, one of these.
What is a whale?
Huge underwater mountain range in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
Salt water is more dense than freshwater, therefore in an estuary describe where the river water will go when it meets the ocean
What is river water on top of ocean water ?
the movement of individuals OUT of an area
What is emigration?
The great species of this shark with a tool in its name specializes in preying on stingrays Jeopardy
What is a hammerhead?
This animal is often called the Unicorn of the sea
What is a Narwhal?
A procedure used to determine the age of recent fossils
What is carbon dating?
The amount of dissolved ions in the ocean
What is Salinity?
the type of dispersion seen in Emperor penguins where they are trying to stay as far apart from each other as possible due to aggressive behaviors
What is Uniform/Even dispersion?
Chondrichthyes have skeletons made of ___________.
What is cartilage?
This carnivore’s scientific name is Ursus maritimus.
What is Polar Bear?
At 28,374 feet, the Puerto Rico Trench is this ocean's deepest point.
What is the Atlantic?
It's the directional name given to the ocean that surrounds Antarctica.
What is the Southern Ocean?
powerful indirect interactions that can control entire ecosystems, occurring when a trophic level in a food web is suppressed
What are trophic cascades?
The reef that Marlin and Nemo call home
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
This is the largest type of baleen whale and despite its name it's usually very happy
What is the Blue Whale?
Sediments derived from the skeletons and shells of marine organisms
What are biogenous sediments?
An alarming 2019 environmental report called for action to reduce the 8 million tons of this substance going into oceans every year.
What is plastic?