Vocabulary
A condition of significantly lower body temperature caused by exposure to cold
Hypothermia
Through the Straits of Florida, the Gulf Stream moves almost how many times more water per second than the Mississippi River?
2000
Genoese sailor who discovered Puerto Rico and the Bahamas
Christopher Columbus
Dolphins are part of this group of sea life?
Coral disease of unknow orgins that cause the coral to die and turn white
Coral bleaching
Pertaining to areas near or on the equator
Equatorial
Did you know THIS MUCH of the world's yearly catch of fish is taken from the Atlantic Ocean?
1/4
French admiral and nvavigatior sent to circumnavigate the world in 1766 to 1769. Rediscovered the Solomon Islands
Louis-Antoine De Bougainville
Sea lettuce is a type of what?
Algae
What substance are coral reefs made of?
Calcium carbonate or limestone secreted by the coral.
This name means "head foot" and was probaly given becuase these animals use their head to move. The group contains octopus, squid, cuttlefish, devilfish, and nautilus.
Cephalopod
The deepest part of the ocean (the Hadopelagic Zone) is over THIS MANY feet deep.
20,000 ft.
This Portuguese navigator was the leader of the first expedition to circumnavigate the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
Sea creatures that have an paired, jointed appendages and an exoskeleton are part of what group of sealife?
Crustaceans
How many species of aquatic life live in coral reefs
Over 1 million
The philosophy about the past, which allows for totally different processes and/or different process rates, scales, and intensitites than those operating today.
Catastrophism
The Great Barrier Reef is THIS MANY miles long
1,429
British explorer and cartographer who conducted three South Pacific voyages of discovery providing valuable charts and maps of New Guinea and the Pacific Coast of North America
James Cook
What sealife can be found at the deepest part of the ocean?
Shrimp, Flounder, Anglerfish, jellyfish, and tubeworms
Besides atolls and barrier reefs, whats the third type of reef consisting of platforms of living coral.
Fringing reefs
When the sun and the moon line up with the earth in a straight line.
Syzygy
This song is popular because it features a favorite marine mammal
The Manatee Song
Flemish geographer and mathematician who constructed the cylindrical map projection used for ocean navigation.
Gerardus Mercator
an invertebrate with a soft unsegmented body, most kinds have an external shell.
Mollusks
What is one of the most facinating creatures in the reef that can crack aquarium glass with a club shaped limb and detect circularly polarized light with eyes that have at least 16 types of photoreceptors?
Stomatopods or mantis shrimp