Adaptation Station
Marine mammals have this layer of fat to insulate them in cold ocean waters.
What is blubber
This mammal is known for its intelligence, echolocation, and playful communication clicks.
What is a dolphin
Sharks have skeletons made of this flexible material instead of bone.
What is cartilage?
This term describes the variety of life in a particular ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
This 1975 movie greatly increased public fear of sharks.
What is Jaws?
Penguins and dolphins both have this body shape that reduces drag and allows efficient swimming.
What is a Streamlined body
Seals and sea lions belong to this group, characterized by flippers and time spent both on land and in water.
What are pinnipeds
The movie Jaws depicts this type of shark.
What is a great white shark
This type of species has a disproportionately large impact on its ecosystem relative to its abundance.
What is a keystone species?
Media often portrays sharks as mindless killers, but in reality, they play this important ecological role.
What are apex predators (or maintaining ecosystem balance)?
Dolphins hunt in coordinated groups, displaying this complex social behavior.
What is cooperative hunting
This evolutionary transition describes how marine mammals originated from these types of ancestors.
What are terrestrial (land-dwelling) mammals?
This organ allows sharks to detect electrical signals from prey hidden in the sand.
What are ampullae of Lorenzini?
How would the removal of shark impact ocean ecosystems?
Biodiversity would decrease and trophic cascades would occur
Fear-driven perceptions of sharks have contributed to this harmful human activity.
What is shark finning (or overfishing of sharks)?
Countershading helps marine animals avoid predators by doing what?
What is being dark on top and light on bottom to blend in from above and below?
This term refers is used to refer to "toothed whales"
What are odontocetes?
This part of the shark runs along the side of its body and is used to detect low-frequency vibrations and water pressure changes
What is the lateral line
This type of symbiosis exists bwteen remora fish and sharks
what is mutualism
What is an example of a strange event that may occur more frequently than death by shark bite?
hit in the head with a coconut, crushed by a vending machine, etc.
Thermoregulation, blubber, or dense hair are all adaptations that fall under this survival theme.
What is maintaining homeostasis?
Otariids and phocids differ in these 2 main ways.
What are the presence of external ears (otariids - sea lions) and rotation of rear flippers?
This describes what occurs when a shark loses a tooth after devouring its prey
Shark teeth are assembled similar to a conveyor belt, in which a tooth moves to the front and replaces another tooth when it is lost
This is considered the most biodiverse ecosystem in the ocean
what is a coral reef
What is your favorite type of shark and why
various answers