Marine Mammals
The only herbivorous group of marine mammals
What are manatees and dugongs?
Used by fish to breathe underwater
What are gills?
A mollusk has this type of body (HINT: not hard)
What is soft-bodied?
These are species of crustaceans
What are crabs, lobsters, krill, and shrimp?
A group of reef-building corals; colonies of coral polyps
What is a coral reef?
Largest animal on Earth is this marine mammal
What is a blue whale?
What is an egg?
These are species of mollusks
What are squid, snail, octopus, nautilus, worm, clam, oyster, cuttlefish, mussels, etc.?
Crustaceans are these types of eaters
What are omnivores?
An underwater forest of large seaweed
What is a kelp forest?
The largest land predator is this marine mammal
What is a polar bear?
True/false:
Fish cannot blink their eyes.
What is a carnivore?
This covers a crustaceans body
What is an exoskeleton (hard shell)?
What is salt water?
A group of dolphins is called this
What is a pod?
This is the biggest fish in the ocean
What is the whale shark?
This is used as protection from predators
What is an ink cloud/camouflage/detach an arm, etc.?
Crustaceans are a source of food for these animals (what eats them?)
What are whales, fish, and humans?
These are some animals you might find in or around a salt marsh (tidewater channels/coastal wetlands)
What are clams, mussels, fiddler crabs, tern, osprey, turtles, toads, frogs, dragonflies, salamander, butterflies, mosquitos, egrets, heron, etc.?
A layer of fat used to keep many marine mammals warm while swimming in cold waters.
What is blubber?
Sharks, rays, and skates have skeletons made of this (not bone)
What is cartilage?
This is the largest species of mollusk
What is the colossal squid (can grow to 39-46 feet!)?
Crustaceans are distant relatives of this animal group (HINT: have six legs and three body parts)
What are insects?
The percentage of the Earth's surface that is covered with oceans
What is 70%?