Habitats
What is the main challenge of a Tidal Pool?
The tide changes every day
What are animals swimming animals that live in the water?
What is Aquatic animals?
What is an animal that gets food by straining tiny plants and animals out of the water allowing clean water to exit the animal?
What is Filter Feeder
The human body is what percent water?
What is 60%?
What is at the bottom of the food chain?
What is Plankton
What is coral?
Coral is a living animal that stays in one spot and provides structure for other animals.
What is it called when animals make their own light?
What is bioluminescence?
What are swimming animals called?
What is nekton?
What is the shallow underwater edge of a continental shelf called?
What is the continental shelf?
What are tiny animal-like creatures that drift in the water and eat other tiny creatures?
What is zooplankton
What loves to eat kelp?
Sea urchins
What is it called when a dead whale sinks to the ocean floor and becomes food for many organisms?
What is whale fall
What are creatures that crawl, scoot, or scurry on the bottom of the ocean floor called?
What are benthic animals?
Most animals life on or above the continental shelf because what reaches it?
What is sunlight?
What is phytoplankton?
What is brackish water?
the mixing of salt and fresh water
What much of the earth's surface is covered by water?
What is 71%?
What is it called when animals are attached to one place and do not move around?
Sessile
What fish uses glowing lure to attract and catch prey?
Angler fish
When springs comes and brings warmer temperatures and longer days, plankton can multiply quickly- this is called?
What is a plankton bloom?
In what habitat would you find a whale?
Open ocean
What is 97%?
All living things are connected with the _________?
Food chain
What loves to eat sea urchins?
Sea otters
What means to drift or wander?
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