Ocean Species
This gentle giant is the largest fish in the world.
What is the whale shark?
Kelp belongs to this group of organisms rather than true plants.
What is algae?
Sharks have skeletons made of this material rather than bone.
What is cartilage?
This ocean houses the most number of sharks.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This 1975 blockbuster film changed the public's perception of sharks forever.
What is Jaws?
This fish is the fastest swimmer in the ocean, capable of almost 70 mph.
What is the sailfish?
Approximately what percentage of Earth's oxygen is produced by marine photosynthetic organisms?
Roughly 50%.
Sharks can detect this phenomenon produced by other living organisms using specialized sensory organs called Ampullae.
What are electric fields?
Swimmers float easily in this sea due to its exceptionally high salinity content.
What is the Dead Sea?
The Hulk, Batman, and the great white shark from Finding Nemo all share this first name.
What is Bruce?
This apex predator has the strongest measured bite force of any living fish.
What is the great white shark?
This SpongeBob character is one of a microscopic group of marine organisms that forms the base of most ocean food webs.
What is plankton?
This shark species is the only one known to spend much of its life filtering plankton while relaxing near the surface, despite being the second largest fish in the world.
What is the basking shark?
This narrow strait connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
This absurd 2013 sci-fi comedy features sharks being thrown into the air by a certain natural disaster.
What is Sharknado?
Despite its nickname, this "killer" is actually the longest member of the dolphin family.
What is the orca?
Seagrasses are unique because they are this type of organism rather than algae.
What are flowering plants (or angiosperms)?
A uniquely shaped tail, with a greatly elongated upper lobe, is used by this species of shark to stun schools of fish before feeding.
What is the thresher shark?
This warm ocean current, which lends its name to a popular aviation company, helps moderate the climate of Western Europe.
What is the Gulf Stream?
In this 2005 children's movie, the son of a famous inventor uses a shark-themed superhero identity alongside his lava-powered friend.
What is The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl?
This cephalopod has three hearts, blue blood, and can edit its own RNA.
What is the octopus?
Although often mistaken for colorful underwater plants, coral reefs are actually built by colonies of these animals.
What are coral polyps?
Engineers have studied this feature of shark skin to design reduced drag swimsuits, aircraft coatings, and ship hulls.
What are dermal denticles?
This underwater mountain range stretches for more than 40,000 miles and is the longest chain on Earth.
What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge?
This shark-themed video game released in 2020 features a giant prehistoric shark as the player-controlled predator.
What is Maneater?