Oceans/Seas
The coldest ocean on Earth.
What is the Artic Ocean?
This gas exchange process allows oxygen to enter ocean surface waters.
What is diffusion?
The largest fish in the ocean.
What is a whale shark?
This body of water separates Africa from Europe and has been a key trade route since ancient times.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This legendary city was said to have sunk beneath the ocean.
What is Atlantis?
This canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Central America.
What is the Panama Canal?
This climate pattern involves periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean.
What is El Niño?
This adaptation allows some marine species to produce light.
What is bioluminescence?
Members of this civilization were the first to reach North America.
Who were the Vikings?
The director of this shark-attack movie expressed regret for his negative portrayal of sharks after the movie led to a widespread fear of sharks in America.
What is Jaws?
The deepest point on Earth is found in this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This force causes moving water to curve due to Earth’s rotation.
What is the Coriolis effect?
These organisms drift with currents and cannot swim against them.
What are plankton?
The triangular trade route connected Europe, Africa, and this continent.
What is the Americas?
This animal can regenerate lost arms and other body parts.
What is a sea star/starfish?
The saltiest sea on Earth.
This acid is produced when CO2 dissolves into the ocean.
What is carbonic acid?
This adaptation involves organisms storing fat and helps marine mammals conserve heat in cold water.
What is blubber?
This explorer was the first person to successfully circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Magellan?
This squid species holds the record for the largest eyes in the animal kingdom.
What is the colossal squid?
What is the Bering Sea/Bering Strait?
Of all the water on Earth's surface the ocean comprises ______%.
What is 97%?
This animal has blue blood due to a copper-based oxygen carrier.
What is an octopus?
This sea monster appears on many early nautical maps and takes the form of a massive octopus or squid.
What is a kraken?
This species can punch with the speed of a bullet.
What is a mantis shrimp?