Ocean Floor & World
Most common salt and gas in the ocean?
What are sodium chloride and carbon dioxide?
What is phytoplankton?
What are nematocysts?
This sensory structure helps fish school and avoid predators.
What is the lateral line?
This body structure in Cetaceans provides propulsion.
What are flukes?
Area in Pacific Ocean with extensive volcanic activity.
What is the ring of fire?
Dinoflagellates are responsible for these toxic phenomena.
What are red tides?
It is through these structures, that sponges take in water for feeding and gas exchange.
What are ostia?
What are cartilaginous fish?
This structure connects the outside of cetaceans to their lungs and not their digestive tract.
What is the blowhole?
Most biologically rich part of the ocean.
What are continental shelves?
What is kelp?
Structure found in molluscs as way to bring in water or escape predators
What is the siphon?
One of the biggest threats to this marine reptile is plastic grocery bags.
What are sea turtles?
The largest of marine mammals use this material to eat some of the smallest food types.
What is baleen?
Series of seismic sea waves caused by earthquakes, landslides or volcanic eruptions
What is a tsunami?
This group of birds spends most of their life at sea and gets rid of excess salt through a structure on their beak.
What are tubenoses?
As long as some of this structure in echinoderms remains, the animal can regrow the body part.
What is the central disc?
After a rain event is when these marine reptiles come to the surface to 'drink'.
What are sea snakes.
Used by toothed whales for communication and navigation, this structure is located inside the skull.
These birds are only found in the Southern Hemisphere and often fly through the water.
What are penguins?
Found in almost every marine ecosystem, these tiny arthropods are a favorite food of filter feeders and filter feed themselves.
What are copepods?
What are scutes?
This large, tusked marine mammal uses its fore-flippers and hind-flippers to both 'walk' on land and swim in the ocean.
What is a walrus?