Anatomy 101
Oh say can you SEA?
You can tune a GUITAR
-but you can't tune a FISH
Surf's Up
With friends like these-
Who needs Anemones?
100
This organ helps many bony fish stay buoyant in their current level of the water column without having to waste energy swimming.
What is the "Swim Bladder"?
100
The Gulf of Mexico is the ____largest body of water on planet earth.
What is 9th?
100
This specialized "line"of nerve tissue on fishes body helps them to sense direction and "hear" movement in the water.
What is the "Lateral Line"?
100
This tiny dinoflagellate bloom is responsible for many fish, dolphin and manatee deaths from neurotoxin poisoning...
What is RED TIDE?
100
This type of relationship is where two organisms benefit by helping eachother out- (ex. cleaner shrimp & moray eel)
What is "Symbiotic"?
200
This fin is located on the "tail end" of the fish.
What is the caudal fin?
200
Originating in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, this is known as one of the strongest ocean currents in the world.
What is the "Gulf Stream"?
200
This type of fish has a more flexible skeleton than a bony fish.
What is a cartilaginous fish?
200
These polyps live together in colonies providing the foundation for much marine life in the ocean.
What is CORAL?
300
Female fish have one gonad which is the ovary filled with these.
What are eggs (known as roe or caviar).
300
Dolphins can be seen in the waters off the coast of Ireland because of this current.
What is the Gulf Stream?
300
Large quantities of fish swimming together in a spherical type of pattern to evade predators.
What is a bait ball?
400
Bony fish have this hard platelike covering over their gills.
What is the operculum?
400
Euphotic, Disphotic and Aphotic are all part of this.
What is the water column?
400
Cartilaginous fish filter water through exposed ____.
What are gills?
400
Chemotrophic bacteria can be found colonizing tube worms living in the deepest parts of the rainforest.
What is False?
400
This type of sea turtle has an especially thick neck.
What is a loggerhead?
500
This tube like organ appears green in fish that eat seaweed and algae (herbivores).
What is the intestine?
500
This type of organism breaks down dead or rotting organisms and return nutrients to the soil.
What is a decomposer or detritivore?
500
An apex predator only eats producers.
What is false?
500
DAILY DOUBLE! Make a wager... This type of seafood is NOT safe to eat during a RED TIDE bloom.
What are bivalves? (clams and oysters)
500
A zebra and a horse can mate and create this type of offspring.
What is an infertile Zebroid or Zorse?
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