Marine Animals
This friendly marine mammal is known for its intelligence and playful behavior.
What is a dolphin?
Most ocean life lives in the zone.
What is the sunlight zone?
This animal makes a high-pitched sound to communicate and navigate.
What is a dolphin?
These half-human, half-fish beings appear in many legends.
What are mermaids?
This event occurs when coral loses its color due to stress.
What is coral bleaching?
This animal has been around for 650 million years, making them older than dinosaurs.
What is a jellyfish?
This is the shallowest part of the ocean, where people swim and snorkel.
What is the coastal zone (or continental shelf)?
Scientists use this term for underwater sound waves that bounce off objects.
What is sonar?
This "monster of the deep" is said to have giant tentacles.
What is the Kraken?
The ocean produces more than half of this essential gas we breathe.
What is oxygen?
This fish has a long, sharp nose and is one of the fastest swimmers in the ocean.
What is a swordfish?
This middle zone is dim and starts at about 660 feet deep.
What is the twilight zone?
This large marine animal sings complex songs under the sea.
What is a humpback whale?
In mythology, this god ruled the sea and carried a trident.
Who is Poseidon (Greek) or Neptune (Roman)?
These floating islands of garbage can harm sea life.
What are plastic gyres or garbage patches?
This marine mammal has thick fur and floats on its back while eating.
What is a sea otter?
This deepest zone is pitch black and very cold.
What is the midnight zone?
The loudest ocean sound ever recorded (in1997) was called this mysterious name.
What is the Bloop?
Some sailors believed this natural phenomenon meant a sea monster was near.
What is a whirlpool?
This warming of surface waters in the Pacific can change weather patterns worldwide.
What is El Niño?
This creature lives in deep water, glows in the dark, and has a long "fishing rod" on its head.
What is an anglerfish?
This zone is found at the very bottom of the ocean near the seafloor.
What is the abyssal or hadal zone?
The low-frequency calls of these giants can travel thousands of miles.
What are blue whales?
In some myths, sailors thought seeing this ghostly ship meant doom.
What is the Flying Dutchman?
The melting of this frozen part of the planet causes rising sea levels that threaten coastal areas.
What are glaciers or polar ice caps?