Marine Animals
Blue Whale
What is the most common type of seaweed?
Kelp
What is the biggest body of water?
What is pacific and atlantic
What is the name for a large underwater mountain?
What is a Seamount?
What percentage of earth's surface is covered by oceans
What is about 71%
What shark is known for having a hammer-shaped head?
Hammerhead shark
What marine plant is a key producer in coral reef ecosystems?
Algae
What is the name of the gentle slope at the edge of the continent?
What is continental shelf
What is the edge of a continent under the ocean called?
What is the continental shelf?
What is the process where cold nutrient-rich water rises to the surface?
What is upwelling
What animal uses echolocation to find food?
Dolphin
Which plant floats in the Sargasso Sea and provides shelter to marine life?
Sargassum
The major cause of tides is
What structure forms when coral builds up over time in shallow water?
What is a coral reef?
What is the salty part of seawater called?
What is salinity
Which invertebrate can regrow a lost arm?
Starfish
Which type of plant anchors to the ocean floor and is mistaken for seaweed?
Seagrass
What is the deepest ocean?
What is pacific ocean
What is the name for a deep crack in the ocean floor?
What is a trench?
What causes tides in the ocean
What is gravity of the moon
What mammal has three heart and blue blood?
Octupus
What tiny plant like organisms form the base of the ocean food web?
Phytoplankton
The steep drop from the continental to the ocean floor is called?
What is continental slope
What is the worlds deepest known ocean trench
What is the mariana trench
What is the name of the current that moves warm water from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic
What is the Gulf Stream