Vocab
gills
What are organs for taking oxygen from water?
A jellyfish has this kind of body shape
What is a medusa?
The Indian Ocean is NOT an ocean basin.
What is false?
Organisms that exhibit bioluminescence live in this underwater ecosystem.
What is the deep ocean?
The production of visible light by living organisms
What is bioluminescence?
The ____ side of the cnidarian has the mouth.
What is oral?
All mollusks have an outer shell.
What is false?
Sharks are in a class of fishes with body support composed of this, not bone.
What is cartilage?
A community of organisms that interact with each other and their physical environment
What is an ecosystem?
This is a feature that all mollusks have.
What is a mantle?
Fish swim with a side-to-side tail motion.
What is true?
Bony fishes have a gas-filled sac called this that allows them to remain at a specific depth in the water.
What is an air bladder?
A close living situation between 2 species where at least one of the species benefits
What is symbiosis?
Clownfish have a symbiotic relationship with this ocean invertebrate.
What is a sea anemone?
A symbiotic relationship is when two organisms live near each other and one organism provides food for the other.
What is false?
Look for this to determine if the ocean animal is a sea lion or seal.
What are external ears?
Marine Biology
What is a branch of biology that explores organisms living in or around the ocean?
Echinoderms' bodies are designed with a base of this many radiating parts. (Pg 347)
What is 5?
Because their bodies cannot handle the different physical features in other parts of the world, most ocean organisms do not move around the Earth, going from one ocean basin to another.
What is true?
Having cone-shaped teeth and hunting prey in pods are 2 features of this major type of whale. (pg 357)
What are toothed whales?