In the SEA
What am I?
Fin Facts
Science Stuff
Endangered Species
100
Spends its time suspended in the air but belongs in the sea.
the grey whale skeleton.
100
I have eight arms and love crab - who am I?
Giant Pacific Octopus
100
Liberty bay was once named after this once-large population
Dogfish
100
Evolutionary response of animals in their environment.
What is adaptation
100
Most famous Salish Sea residents
Orcas - Southern Resident Killer Whales
200
Hangs out under the sand or rocks.
Burrowing cucumber
200
Who is "Rocky the rockfish"
200
The largest and most populated island WITHIN the Salish Sea.
Whidbey Island
200
Crustaceans are a large group of this phylum.
What are anthropods.
200
These gastropods are Curator MacKenzie's favorite animal in the aquarium!
Pinto Abalone
300
Before 2016 I was called something else. What was it?
Poulsbo Marine Science Center
300
Gooseneck Barnacle
300
These slimy fish are one of McKenna's favorite creatures.
Hagfish
300
Ocean microalgea with silica walls
What is diatom
300
These fish are one of the most important food sources in the Salish Sea
Salmon - Chinook
400
Sea otters and sea horses are just two of the animals that eat and live in this underwater forest.
Kelp forest
400
I befriended a cleaning lady and I like to collect trinkets
Marcellus - from Remarkably Bright Creatures
400
The name used for the type of water found in the Salish Sea estuaries
Brackish
400
The name for free-swimming juvenile forms of jellyfish
Ephyrae
400
This small seabird gets its name from its changing feather patterns
Marbled Murrelet
500
True or false: Earth is covered in more water than land.
True
500
A gnathopod armed with a poison-producing gland in these spooky "shrimp"
Skeleton Shrimp - Caprellids
500
This is a group of sea otters.
What is a raft?
500
Another name for a toxic algae bloom
Red tide
500
Keystone species that has declined by over 99% in Washington state and loves to eat urchins!
Sunflower Star