Geography
The world's largest ocean.
What is the Pacific?
Weighing up to 200 tons, these sea mammals are thought to be the biggest animals ever.
What are blue whales?
This common waste item was once sold in grocery stores in California, but not anymore! Calpirg helped lobby to get them banned from 1/1/2026 on.
What are plastic bags?
This 1997 film directed by James Cameron focuses around the tragic sinking of a great ship and the romance between two of its ill-fated passengers.
What is "Titanic"?
This Roman god was said to have ruled the sea and is famous for holding a trident and creating horses
Who is Neptune?
The group of islands directly off of the Los Angeles coast (For double points: name three!)
What are the channel islands? (Anacapa, San Miguel, San Clemente, Santa Barbara, Santa Catalina, Santa Rosa, San Nicholas, and Santa Cruz)
This category of tiny organisms drift throughout the oceans, forming the bottom of the food chain. Just don't let one near your formuler!
What are plankton?
This is what we're fighting for! Calpirg is lobbying to expand them; they're like state parks for our oceans.
What are MPAs- Marine Protection Areas?
The titular character in Disney's film sequel centering around a lost fish.
Who is Dory?
This legendary sea monster from Scandinavian folklore was said to terrorize sailors and may have been inspired by the real-life giant squid
What is the Kraken?
What is the Bering sea?
These crucial marine ecosystem off the coast of California have declined by 95% in the past decade.
What is a kelp forest?
NEEDS REWORK
Off of their sixth studio album "The Mollusk", this band wrote and released the track "Ocean Man" in 1997.
Who is Ween?
In Greek myth these dangerous female creatures lured sailors to their death with enchanting songs
What are Sirens?
This island type forms when a ring of coral builds up and outlasts the island that it formerly surrounded.
What is an atoll?
This phylum contains many funky sea critters such as anenomes, jellyfish, and coral. Watch out! Many of them pack a stinging punch.
What are Cnidarians?
Our ocean's coral reefs are most at risk from this process, which leaves them a ghostly white.
What is coral bleaching?
Considered perhaps "the most reproduced artwork in history", 19th century Japanese artist Hokusai's famed woodblock print depicts this oceanic scene.
What is a great wave (Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa")
In Scottish and Northern Isle folklore, this creature can shed its seal skin and become human
What is a selkie?
Known for its mats of seaweed and relative lack of wind, this named sea in the Atlantic is the only one completely surrounded by an ocean.
What is the Sargasso sea?
This benthic behemoth isn't the heaviest cephalopod - unlike its colossal cousin - but it is the biggest tip-to-tail.
What is the giant squid?
Once a full sea, this body of water in central Asia is now the world's newest desert, and a stark reminder of the scale of human ecological damage.
What was the Aral sea?
Call me this, the first line and main character in Herman Melvilles 1851 tale of a man, his crew, and his murderous obsession with a white whale
Who is Ishmael?
In Japanese mythology, this dragon sea god lives in an undersea palace called Ryugu-Jo
Who is Ryujin?