Vocabulary
Organs for taking oxygen from water
What are gills?
A branch of biology that explore organisms living in and around the ocean
What is marine biology?
When a shark looses one of these another will move foward to take its place.
What are teeth?
Whales communicate using this.
What is echolocation?
Many organisms living in the deep ocean make this.
What is bioluminescence?
A. Community of organisms that interact with each other and their physical environment
What is an ecosystem
This first layer of the ocean has plenty of warmth and light.
What is the sunlight layer?
These are members of the class Chondrichthyes, or cartilaginous fish.
What are sharks?
These are the 2 major types of whales.
What are toothed whales and baleen whales?
Well known ocean environment that is the equivalent to a tropical rainforest.
What is a coral reef?
The production of visible light by living organisms.
What is bioluminescence?
This ocean circles the earth along the coast of Antarctica and is not a basin.
What is the Southern Ocean?
Sharks use these to breathe.
What are gills?
Sea lions have this noticeable characteristic that seals do not.
What are external ears?
This ocean creature can lay up to 150 egg.
What is a sea turtle?
A close living situation between 2 species where at least one of the species benefits.
What is symbiosis?
The 4 largest basins on earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean Basin, the Atlantic Ocean Basin, the Indian Ocean Basin and the Arctic Ocean Basin?
Sharks are this shape for fast swimming and maneuvering.
What is torpedo shaped?
These large slow moving, plant eating animals don't actually have any blubber.
What are manatees?
This narrow strip of land from the lowest point of low tide to where the ocean waves crash.
What is the intertidal zone?
Most boney fishes have this special gas filled sac.
What is an Air bladder
This layer in the ocean goes from 1000m to 4000m deep and has no light.
What is the midnight layer?
This largest type of shark measures 18m (60ft).
What is the Whale shark?
This class contains whales, dolphins, seals and manatees.
What is class Mammalia?
Name 3 types of Maine reptiles
Sea snakes, marine iguanas, and salt water crocodiles