Marine Biology
The branch of science that investigates organisms that live in salt water
What is Marine Biology?
This circular object produces a gravitational pull that makes part of the ocean bulge
What is the moon?
The zone of the ocean that has the most sunlight
What is the Intertidal zone?
The main food source almost all marine life depend on
What is algae?
The two different types of coral
What are hard and soft?
The earth’s oceans are split into these five sections.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Arctic, and Indian Oceans?
The main cause of wind
What is wind?
This zone is home to 90% of marine life.
What is The sunlight zone.
The smallest living things in the ocean belong to this kingdom
What is bacteria?
These are used to defend coral, catch food, and get rid of debris.
What are tentacles?
How well an object floats
What is buoyancy?
A secondary cause of wind
What is an earthquake/volcano/tsunami, etc?
Plants to do not live in this zone or below.
What is the twilight zone?
The five marine life kingdoms from largest to smallest are these.
What are Animal, plant, protists, fungi, bacteria?
A lot of individual corals that are similar make up this
What is A coral colony
This is something that makes oceans different from rivers and streams.
The best time to see creatures in the intertidal zone.
What is low tide?
An animal that gives off its own light is called this
What is bioluminescent?
Seaweed are algae that belong to this kingdom
What are protists?
Soft coral always have tentancles that grow in multiples of this number.
What are six?
This percent of the earth is covered by water.
What is 71%?
The pressure in this zone would feel like 100 elephants standing on your head
What is the trench zone?
Most of this kingdom live on land, but some are found in the ocean
What is fungi?
What is the animal kingdom?