Aqua Mobility
The word "aqua" means this in Latin.
What is water.
This is the word used to describe animals that do not have a backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
Rivers and streams carry this type of water back to the ocean.
What is freshwater?
Most of the ocean's aquatic animals live near the coastline in this ocean zone.
What is the continental shelf?
This is how benthic animals such as crabs and lobsters move in the ocean.
What is crawl?
Mammals are this because their body temperature stays the same no matter how cold it is outside.
What is warm-blooded?
The gravitational pull of this body is the main cause of tides.
What is the Moon?
This is by far the widest and deepest of the ocean zones.
What is the abyssal plain?
This group of animals moves through the water by swimming.
What is nektonic?
This class of animals includes frogs, toads, and salamanders.
What is an amphibian?
This is the force that causes waves on the surface of the ocean.
What is wind?
This is the ocean floor's giant cliff-like dropoff leading to the deep ocean.
What is the continental slope?
These organisms can only move by drifting with the current.
What is plankton?
This organ allows fish to breathe underwater.
What are gills?
Animals such as snails and sea stars can best been seen in these, which are revealed during low tide when the ocean has moved farther from the shore.
What are tide pools?
You can see fish while snorkeling in the coral reefs because you are swimming in this ocean light zone.
What is the sunlight zone?
Of the 4 aqua mobility groups, this group would be least likely to win a race in the ocean.
What is sessile?
This class of vertebrate animals has scales and breathes air.
What is a reptile?
Thermohaline currents deep below the ocean's surface are caused by differences in these 2 properties of the water.
What is heat and salt?
This is the property that allows some aquatic animals to create their own light and survive in the midnight zone.
What is bioluminescence?