Marine Mammals
This marine mammal is the largest species of dolphin. Its nickname is "Killer Whale".
What is an orca?
This sea plant attaches itself to rocks and grows upward. It lives in the _ forest. This plant can keep the entire forest population safe from bigger, more dangerous predators.
What is kelp?
Sea turtles like the leatherback can mistake this man-made everyday object for jellyfish and eat it and die. People use 5 trillion of these objects every year.
What is a plastic bag?
This orange, black, and white fish is able to swim in and out of poisonous anemones with their slippery bodies.
What is a clown fish?
The first ocean layer gets the most light which is why it's called the _ zone
What is the sunlight zone?
These creatures are the largest Arctic seals, known for their long, prominent whiskers, and can be identified by their greyish-brown coats and square fore-flippers. They are solitary animals that live for about 25 years and feed on bottom-dwelling invertebrates and fish found in shallow, ice-associated waters
What is a bearded seal?
This marine flowering plants found in shallow areas of a bay that need sunlight to grow. Their extensive root system stabilizes underwater sediments, improves water clarity and reduces erosion. Their leaves provide food, a place to hide and a surface to which smaller plants and animals can attach.
What is seagrass?
This man - made disaster can affect hundreds of sharks. People use these material to catch fish, but sharks can end up tangled in it and die.
These fish are large, powerful marine fish known for their speed and long, spear-like snouts. They are found in warm oceans worldwide, are highly migratory. They are apex predators that feed on other fish and cephalopods, using their bills to stun prey
What is a marlin
This layer is a layer of the ocean spanning across the whole of Earth, beginning at two hundred metres below the surface, and ending at 1km down – where the pressure would be equivalent to ten elephants standing on your head!
What is the twilight zone?
This whale is the loudest animal on earth. It can fight and eat giant squid. It was hunted for its oil and teeth. Now a days it's hunted for sport.
What is a sperm whale?
Daily Double!
These plants are diverse, simple, photosynthetic organisms found in aquatic environments that produce up to half the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere and are crucial for aquatic life and climate regulation. They range from microscopic, single-celled organisms to large seaweeds, can be various colors including red, green, and brown, and lack true roots, stems, or leaves.
What is algae?
This man - made fishing material can hurt dolphins. When used, it can scratched up or severely injure them.
What are fish hooks?
This fish is a vibrant marine herbivore that grows up to 1 foot long and is characterized by its blue body with yellow patches and intricate fin markings. These fish use their parrot-like beaks to scrape algae off rocks, and they are crucial for reef health.
What is a princess parrotfish?
The resulting bathypelagic, or _ zone extends to about 4,000 meters (about 13,100 feet), which reaches the ocean floor in many places. In addition to the lack of light, this zone is characterized by a steady temperature of around 4° Celsius (39° Fahrenheit).
What is the midnight zone?
This creature is critically endangered tropical seals native to the Hawaiian Islands, where they are the state mammal. They are known for being solitary and spend about two-thirds of their time at sea hunting for fish and invertebrates like octopus and crab, coming ashore to rest or give birth.
What is a Hawaiian monk seal?
This plant has great ecological importance. They form a vital part of the food chain and are also involved in producing about 40 to 60 percent of the total global oxygen for both terrestrial habitat and other aquatic habitats
What is phytoplankton?
This man - made water traveling vehicle can chop up fish with its motor. It could also scratch and cut dolphins or whales. Killer whales have been seen tipping them over because the vehicle has accidentally injured a killer whale.
What is a Motor Boat?
This creature is very rare. It has no swim bladder, as little buoyancy is required for a life largely spent laying on the ocean floor and gelatinous skin is that it allows them to float above the ocean floor without expending energy on swimming.
What is a blobfish?
This layer would take you down into the depths. There is no light down here at all. It can crush a human being with the water pressure.
What is the abyssal zone?
This sea creature is the world's rarest sea mammal and one of the most endangered. It is a small member of the porpoise family. Their name means "little cow" in spanish.
What is a vaquita?
All but one of this species' plants live in California. This plant forms dense mats at the water's surface, potentially lowering diversity.
What is Myriophyllum spicatum?
There aren't many man-made disasters that are as large or as visible as this one. There's nothing particularly complicated about what's gone on here: a huge amount of rubbish has made its way into the ocean over the past decades because of negligent humans.
What is "The North Pacific Garbage Patch"?
This fish live in deep waters off of southeastern Africa. Only once fishers started fishing deeper and deeper was this species discovered. Before that time, this entire family of fishes was only known from fossils. They can reach lengths over 6.5 feet (2 m) and are nocturnal predators. Other unique characteristics include a hinged joint in the skull which allows the fish to widen its mouth for large prey; an oil-filled tube, called a notochord, which serves as a backbone; thick scales common only to extinct fish; and an electrosensory rostral organ in its snout likely used to detect prey.
What is a Coelacanth?
The region extending from 6,000 to 11,000 meters deep is named after the greek god Hades. This zone occurs only in trenches; combined across all oceans, they make up an area about the size of Australia.
What is the hadal zone?