Bodies of Water
This is the largest ocean on Earth
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This zone is found between the highest high tides and the lowest low tides
What is the intertidal zone?
Two snappers, three groupers, and a grunt swimming together would be called a school of this
What is fishes?
Invertebrates account for this percentage of all animal species
What is 97%?
There are 33 species of this type of marine mammal, some with ears, and some without
What are seals?
This ocean is bounded by Africa to the west, Asia to the north, and Australia to the east
What is the Indian Ocean?
Ocean tides are caused by these two forces
What is gravity and inertia?
Ten mullet swimming together would be called a school of this
What is fish?
Gastropods are commonly known as these
What are snails?
This is the largest animal on the planet
What is a blue whale?
In 1858, an undersea telegraph cable connected Western Ireland to Eastern Newfoundland, crossing this ocean
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
A measure of the concentration of dissolved Chloride and Sodium ions in seawater
What is salinity?
Fishes extract dissolved oxygen from the water using these structures
What are gills?
These marine invertebrates are in the Phylum Porifera, and were once harvested in great quantities around the waters of the Florida Keys. We also use them in the shower.
What are sponges?
This marine mammal has an enlarged tooth protruding from its head
What is a narwhal?
This is the smallest and shallowest of the world's oceans
What is the Arctic Ocean?
Phylum Cnidaria includes jellyfish, anemones, and these colorful, reef-building organisms
What are corals?
This structure keeps fish neutrally buoyant in the ocean
What is a swim bladder?
The blue blood of this marine invertebrate is extremely valuable in the pharmaceutical industry, selling for about $60,000 per gallon
What is a horseshoe crab?
The fur of this marine mammal is the densest of any animal on Earth, estimated at 1 million hairs per square inch
What is a sea otter?
This ocean exists south of 60o S latitude
What is the Southern Ocean?
In the Northern Hemisphere, objects moving long distances tend to curve to the right because of this effect
What is the Coriolis effect?
This snapper, also called a grey snapper is a popular recreational species in the Florida Keys
What is a mangrove snapper?
This group of organisms includes sea stars, sea urchins, and sand dollars
What are echinoderms?
This is the most common mammal on the Galapagos Islands
What are sea lions?