Ocean Habitats
The habitat impacted by low and high tide
What is the Intertidal Zone (or mudflats)
What keeps arctic aquatic animals from freezing?
What is blubber/fat?
The percentage of freshwater on Earth compared to salt water.
What is 3%?
The first oceanic zone to receive zero light
What is the midnight zone/Bathypelagic zone?
Name a deep sea animal/fish
What is anglerfish, pelican/gulper eel, etc?
Name a habitat that creates a barrier to protect from hurricanes
What are coral or oyster reefs, mangrove forests, and estuaries?
Has no backbone or spine
What is an invertebrate?
The stage in the water cycle when water flows into the ground
What is infiltration?
This zone can vary in size based on the tides
What is the intertidal zone?
Name an animal found in the open ocean
What is dolphin, shark, whale, sea turtle, etc.?
It's 3x better at collecting carbon than rainforests and has sea turtles
What is sea grass meadows?
Name a colony organism
What is Portuguese Man O War or Coral?
When plants give off water vapor (water cycle).
What is transpiration?
What is 90%?
Name an invertebrate
What is a sea urchin, bugs, sea stars, etc.?
Where freshwater rivers and saltwater oceans meet
What is estuaries (or salt marshes)?
Name three microscopic organisms
What is bacteria, algae, flatworms etc.?
Why can water striders walk on water?
What is surface tension?
The benthic zone includes this deepest point in the ocean within the Mariana Trench
What is Challenger Deep?
Name an aquatic vertebrate
What is fish, whales, otters, etc.?
Has dolphins and not a lot of activity
What is open oceans?
VERY HARD: Eukaryotes and _____
What is Prokaryotes?
The solid form of this liquid is less dense
What is water/ice?
The other name for the twilight zone
Name the location of our field trip
What is Asylum lake?