Ocean
These vibrational waves move three times faster underwater.
What are sound waves?
This crustacean is the largest living arthropod in the world.
What is a Japanese spider crab?
This kind of fish has a skeleton made of cartilage, not bone.
What are sharks/rays/elasmobranchs?
This marine apex predator, despite its name, is actually a kind of dolphin.
What is an orca/killer whale?
What are sea turtles?
This is the deepest point in the ocean (and the world)
What is the Mariana Trench?
This group of animals, though they can be larger than you or me, are often considered plankton due to their drifting lifestyle.
What are jellyfish?
This stabilizing fin lies on the back of most marine vertebrates.
What is a dorsal fin?
This marine mammal has no blubber, instead possessing the densest fur of any animal on earth.
What is a sea otter?
Globsters; huge unidentified fleshy blobs found washed up on beaches, are usually the corpses of _______, ________, or _________.
This Government agency is dedicated to the protection of the ocean and provides weather updates.
What is NOAA?
This simple marine animal can be put in a blender, ground up, and rebuild its body from the ground-up pieces.
Counting the rings on this part of a shark's skeleton allows scientists to estimate its age.
What are vertebrae?
This marine animal has the largest brain of any living creature.
What is a sperm whale?
Plankton from Spongebob is actually a type of tiny, marine crustacean called a _______.
What is a copepod?
The tide after a full moon or new moon is called a _________.
What is a spring tide?
This is the largest group of mollusks, with more than 65,000 species.
What are gastropods/snails?
This fish species was thought to be long extinct until one was caught alive in 1938.
What is a coelacanth?
This animal can break through ice using the back of it’s skull.
What is a walrus?
The Bloop, an infamously mysterious loud underwater noise recorded by NOAA in 1997, was probably caused by ________ ?
What are icebergs cracking?
These extreme ecosystems are thought to be where life on earth originated.
What are hydrothermal vent systems?
This marine animal's "jaws" are called "Aristotle's lantern" due to being shaped like a tiny lantern.
What is a sea urchin?
This fish lives in the deep sea and searches for prey by looking through it's transparent, jelly-filled head.
What is the Barreleye?
This Chinese marine animal was declared extinct in 2006.
What is the Chinese river dolphin / Baiji?
This is another name for the kind of algae that lives in symbiosis with coral and other marine animals.
What are dinoflagellates/zooxanthellae/symbiodinaceae?