Tank Habitats
What is the name of a person who takes care of an aquarium and the animals inside?
Aquarist
What is the term for a huge wave that is usually caused by an underwater earthquake?
Tsunami
Name 3 zones that we included in our ocean zones craft.
Sunlight, Twilight, Midnight, Abyss, and Trench
What is the term for an organism that cannot make its own food and eats other organisms?
Consumer
How old is Logan?
24
What do we feed the moon jellies?
Brine shrimp, sea monkeys, zooplankton
What are the 2 hard parts found within the squid?
The pen and the beak
What is the term for an organism that makes its own food? Give an example of a marine organism that falls into this category.
Producer - seaweed, algae, phytoplankton
What is the rock formation called that we passed by when we went out on the Sea Explorer on Tuesday?
Breakwater
What is one thing that we need to think about when deciding what animals to put in a tank?
Predator/prey relationships
Water Quality (temperature, salinity, pH)
Name the three types of tectonic plate boundaries
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
What is at the base of the food chain in the ocean?
phytoplankton
What is the name for the behavior in which a group of fish follows each other/moves together? Why do fish engage in this behavior?
Schooling
Safety in numbers, protection from predators
What are the three variables that we checked during water quality testing and what do they measure?
Salinity (how salty the water is), Temperature (how hot or cold the water is), and pH (how acidic the water is)
Why would an animal use bioluminescence? Give an example of an animal that uses it
-to distract predators
-to attract a mate/prey
-to communicate with others of the same species
-used by squid, copepods, anglerfish, jellies, etc.
What are the 5 characteristics of mammals?
-warm-blooded
-has fur
-drinks milk as a baby
-breathes oxygen (air)
-gives birth to live young
What are the names of 3 stages in the jelly life cycle?
What species of sharks do we have here at Ocean Institute? (name one)
Swell sharks and Horn sharks
What are the 3 different types of rocks? How is each type formed.
Metamorphic: heat and pressure
Sedimentary: weathering/erosion plus compaction
Igneous: cooling of magma, lava
The character Plankton, from Spongebob, is based on what kind of real-life plankton?
Copepods!
What does an ornithologist OR a herpetologist OR an ichthyologist study? (choose one)
Ornithologists study birds
Herpetologists study reptiles and amphibians
Ichthyologists study fish