Vocabulary
living forever
What is immortal?
the top layer of the ocean closest to the coastline and above the continental shelf
What is the Neritic Zone?
How long is a shrimp?
What is 1.5 to 3 inches?
organisms found in the Neritic Zone carried by tides and currents
What is plankton?
Is a jellyfish an invertebrate or a vertebrate?
What is an invertebrate?
an interaction between two individual species
What is a symbiotic relationship?
How deep does the Neritic Zone go down?
What is 660 feet?
Is a dolphin an invertebrate or a vertebrate?
What is a vertebrate?
type of plankton that are the animals
What is zooplankton?
How many sea anemones are found throughout the world?
more than 1,000
the edge of a continent that lies under the ocean
What is continental shelf?
What is the Subtidal Zone?
How much can a flat fish weigh?
What is 615 pounds?
brown seaweed that grows as big as a tree underwater
What is kelp?
What is a dolphin's life span?
What is 45-60 years?
the area where the ocean meets the land between high and low tides
What is intertidal zone?
the algal dominated zone which extends to about 16.4 feet below the low water mark
What is the Infralittoral Zone?
Is a sea anemone a omnivore, carnivore, or herbivore?
What is carnivore?
What three colors can seaweed be?
What is brown, red, and green?
What group are jellyfish part of?
What is Smack?
any water in a lake or ocean that is not near the shore or the bottom
What is a palagic zone?
the region beyond the Infralittoral Zone that's dominated by sessile animals (mussels, oysters, etc.)
What is the Circalittoral Zone?
What is a coral reef's scientific name?
What is Anthozoa?
How many different types of species of algae are there?
What is 27,000?
What is the lower portion of a shrimp called?
What is pleon segment? or What is the abdomen?