Tides and Reefs
This tide occurs when the water has reached its highest point.
What is a high tide?
All living things contain this.
This crustacean runs sideways.
What is a crab?
These fish have tube feet that they use to attach themselves to other surfaces.
What are starfish or sea stars?
This is the biggest bird in the world.
What is the wandering albatross?
This tide experiences the highest high tides and the lowest low tides.
What is a spring tide?
This is the amount of the earth's surface covered by the ocean.
What is 3/4?
This invertebrate often has a pearl inside of it.
What is a oyster?
This is the most poisonous fish in the world.
What is the stonefish?
This continent is where most penguins live.
What is Antarctica?
This coral reef is off the coast of Australia.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
These are the three steps of the water cycle.
What is precipitation, evaporation, and condensation?
This carnivorous crustacean uses its crushing claws to catch its prey.
What is a lobster?
This fish can bite through a fish hook.
This mammal is so smart it can use tools.
What is a sea otter?
Coral Reefs are made up of this.
What are polyps?
This is the smallest part of a substance.
What is a molecule?
This word means two shells.
What is an bivalave?
This fish helps larger fish by cleaning off parasites.
What is a wrasse?
This word means wing-footed.
What is pinniped?
This tide occurs when the sun and moon are at right angles with the earth.
What is a neap tide?
This is an underground pool of water.
What is an aquifer?
These three crustaceans were the only three in our science textbooks.
This fish mimics another fish by pretending to help larger fish but then takes a big bite out of the larger fish.
What is a blenny?
This is the largest of all pinnipeds.
What is the elephant seal?