Ocean Vocabulary (Words About Ocean Exploration)
This word means “to live in a place,” like fish in the ocean.
What is inhabit?
This word means “something that is hunted,” like the octopus the team looked for.
What is quarry?
In “Neither Out Far Nor In Deep,” this is what people stand on as they look at the sea.
What is sand?
This kind of scientist studies fish.
What is an ichthyologist?
This student activist helped stop a dangerous gas project in Oxnard, California.
Who is Erica Fernandez?
Plants and animals that live in or around water are described with this word.
What is aquatic?
This scientist leads the team and studies octopus decision-making as a psychologist.
What is Jennifer Mather?
In “maggie and milly and molly and may,” this girl finds a singing shell.
Who is maggie?
This branch of science studies Earth’s structure and the ocean floor.
What is geology?
This word means a long underground tube that carries gas or oil.
What is a pipeline?
Octopuses and jellyfish are these animals that have no spine.
What is invertebrates?
The octopus uses this trick, glowing in the dark, to survive in the mesopelagic zone.
What is bioluminescence?
This word from the poems means “slow and relaxed,” describing the starfish’s fingers.
What is languid?
This scientist studies tsunamis and helps create computer models to save lives.
Who is Frank Gonzales?
This word means changing gas into a liquid, as with liquefied natural gas (LNG).
What is condense?
This word describes something very large, such as the ocean covering 70 percent of Earth.
What is vast?
Octopus arms are “marvels of” this, meaning skilled handling of objects.
What is manipulation?
In “A Jelly-Fish,” this word describes how the jellyfish’s charm changes often and irregularly
What is fluctuating?
This job patrols areas to protect marine wildlife and enforce fishing laws.
What is fish and game warden?
This group “oversees” the well-being of the California coast.
What is the California Coastal Commission?
These ocean animals are invertebrates with soft bodies; octopuses belong to this group.
What is mollusks?
Scientists say octopuses are smart partly because they can remember these and react differently to who fed them or poked them.
In “Sea Calm,” the poet warns that it is not good for water to be this way.
What is still?
Daniel Pauly helps local scientists study fisheries using simple tools; his work tries to prevent this complete dying out of species.
What is extinction?
Erica’s father and others needed these devices to help them breathe because of pollution.
What are respirators?