Marine Life
______ is the only sea bird that actually swims
What is a penguin?
Sea cows were often mistaken for mermaids.
True or False
What is true?
bonus fact: Sea cows - Manitees same thing.
bonus fact: Oar fish are often mistaken for the sea serpents. look them up it's cool.
There are ________ large trash islands floating in our oceans.
What is the 5?
________% of underwater landscape has not been explored.
What is 80%?
Oceans absorb _______ _________ to help regular Earth's temperature.
What is solar energy/radiation?
People think that _______ ________ are plants or rocks but they are animals.
(hint: you thought they were plants. Didn't you?)
What are coral reefs?
Scientists had discovered all of the marine species as of 2014.
True or False
What is False?
bonus fact: There are over 1 million undiscovered marine species.
My name means "peaceful". I am the ____ ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean
What are the oceans primary producers?
What are bacteria, microbes and seaweed?
This compound from the periodic table sinks to the bottom of the oceans.
What is CO2?
What is the name of the plant that otters protect from sea urchins?
What is sea kelp?
The ocean's water reflects the sky's blue color.
True or False
What is true?
I am the first ocean to be crossed by an airplane and the first ocean crossed by a ship. I am the _____ ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Which of these animals have the largest eye(s) in the world?
(a) great white shark
(b) colossal squid
(c) blue whale
What is a colossal squid.
This word means many species living in the same ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
How much of the Earth is covered in oceans?
(hint: the percentage)
What is 72%?
Whales have always been sea animals.
True or False
What is false?
bonus fact: Whales (as all animals did) started out as sea animals but became land animals and went through many stages before becoming what they are today.
I cover a 5th of the Earth. I am the ____ ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean
68.7% of Earths fresh water is trapped in ______
what is glaciers
_____ is over 650 million years old and out dates dinosaurs, whales and even sharks.
What are jellyfish?
Bottom trawling destroys the base of the sea floor by dragging nets to catch fish.
What is true?
My name means "middle of the Earth", that's what the Romans thought I was. I am the ________ ocean.
What is the Mediteranean Ocean.
What is the biggest thing polluting the ocean?
Hint: we watched a video about it.
What is plastics?
This word describes too much CO2 in the ocean and the effect is has on coral reefs and all sea creatures.
What is acidification or coral bleaching?