Sharky
What is the largest species of shark?
Whale shark
Animals that glow in the dark are called what?
Bioluminescent
Coral reefs are primarily found in:
A) Deep-sea trenches
B) Warm, shallow tropical waters
C) Freshwater lakes
D) Cold water regions
B) Warm, shallow tropical waters
What word refers to small organisms, including both plants and animals, that are unable to move themselves against ocean currents?
Plankton
What oceanic animal has the scientific name monodon monoceros, Greek for "one-tooth one-horn?"
Narwhal
What shark is the second largest?
Basking shark
What is the common name of Pterosis, a genus of marine fish characterized by colorful stripes and venomous fin spines? Invasive in Caribbean
Lionfish
What phylum contains corals, anemones, jellyfish, and hydra?
Cnidarian
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
Pacific ocean
What species of seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, gets its catlike name from the spotted pattern along its back?
Leopard seal
What are shark babies called?
Pups
This marine creature can change its skin color to communicate and for camouflage. Though its common name includes “fish”, this creature is, in fact, a mollusc.
Cuttlefish
Corals create a hard exoskeleton by excreting what chemical compound, CaCO3, which also makes up limestone?
Which type of plankton is responsible for producing much of Earth’s oxygen?
A) Zooplankton
B) Phytoplankton
C) Bacterioplankton
B) Phytoplankton
What's the better known name for the body part known scientifically as vibrissae, found on seals, walruses, sea lions, and house cats, too?
Whiskers
What unusual shark gets its name, which it shares with a common kitchen item, from the circular "plug" bites it takes out of its prey?
Cookiecutter Shark
The undersea arthropod’s name sounds more equestrian than epidemiological, but its blue blood is used by medical researchers to test out medicines and treatments. Its scientific name is Limulidae, but it’s commonly called what?
Horseshoe crab
A "smack" is the collective term for a large group of what stinging, tentacled sea creatures?
Jellyfish
You might assume that the deepest parts of the ocean are also the coldest, but they can actually get pretty warm thanks to which geological phenomenon where magma meets water on the ocean floor?
Hydrothermal vents
Hooded, Bearded, Ringed, and Spotted are all species of what marine animals also known as pinnipeds?
Seals
Sharks aren’t covered in scales—those sharp things are actually tiny teeth. What’s the proper name for them?
Denticles
All seahorses belong to what genus, a name shared with a seahorse-shaped part of the human brain important to memory?
Hippocampus
What is one cause of coral bleaching?
Changes in temperature (climate change/global warming), runoff and pollution, overexposure to sunlight
Reaching weights of up to 2,000 lbs, which species of sea turtle is the world’s largest species of turtle? The name of this species of turtle references its tough skin.
What is the primary diet of manatees and dugongs, the members of the order Sirenia?
Sea grass