Animal Classification
Corals have which type of body symmetry?
What is asymmetry or no symmetry.
Doral refers to which region of the body?
What is the back to top
This marine environment has cold, nutrient-rich water with lots of phytoplankton. As a result it is very productive!
What is the kelp forest?
Deep red or black coloration is an adaptation common to this marine environment.
What is the deep sea or deep ocean
This is the primary source of habitat and food within a coral reef environment.
What are corals?
This is the second smallest taxon classification group. *Right before the smallest or most narrow.
What is genus ?
Posterior refers to this region of an organism.
What is the end or rear?
This marine environment is created by humans due to the lack of natural hard substrate in some areas of the worlds oceans (such as the Gulf Coast).
What is an artificial reef?
Some animals that live in this marine environment have photosynthetic algae living within their bodies.
What is a coral reef?
This is the primary source of habitat and food within kelp forest environment.
What is kelp?
Sharks and stings rays have this type of body symmetry.
What is bilateral symmetry.
Ventral refers to this region of an animal.
What is the bottom or belly of the animal?
This marine environment exists in warm, shallow seas where there is abundant (a lot of) phytoplankton and lots of brightly colored fish.
The animals that live here have dense fur or blubber to protect them from the cold.
What is the kelp forest?
The deep sea is lacking in food and sunlight, the majority of the animals living there are feeding on what?
What is marine snow?
This is what fish and sharks use to absorb dissolved oxygen from the water.
What are gills?
Anterior refers to this region of the animal.
The front or head
This marine environment is low is dissolved oxygen and has no natural sunlight. As a result food and other resources can be difficult to find.
What is the deep sea?
This marine environment is completely lacking in sunlight, as a result some animals can bioluminescence.
What is the deep ocean?
To prevent heat loss and deal with low levels of food, some animals in the deep sea have become this.
What is GIANT?
This is what whales, dolphins and seals use for respiration or breathing.
What are lungs?
Lateral refers to this region(s) of the animal.
The side or sides.
This is the degree of variation or variety of species in a marine environment.
What is biodiversity?
This is term used to describe the weight of living things in one ecosystem.
What is biomass?
Corals are unique and delicate animals that can grow for 100's of year. They are currently at risk due to the increase in what?