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Channel Islands
Pinnipeds
Cetaceans
Sharks, Rays, Drifters, Fish
Mixed Bag
100
The Channel Islands are located in this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
This type of pinnipeds have ears, including the sea lion and fur seal.
What is a Otariidae?
100
The number of blowholes a Baleen whale has.
What is two?
100
These animals have been around for more than 20 million years.
What are sharks?
100
Tiny floating plants.
What is phytoplankton?
200
This Channel Island is the furthest west off the coast of California.
What is San Miguel?
200
This type of Pinnipeds are earless, including the harbor seal and elephant seal.
What is a Phocidae?
200
The whale that has the longest migration of any mammal.
What is the Gray Whale? 10,000 - 14,000 miles.
200
These drifters sound like something you would eat for breakfast
What are fried-egg jellyfish?
200
Tiny floating animals.
What is zooplankton?
300
This is the reason why Jellies become abundant near the Channel Islands during the summer months.
What is the change in winds and currents?
300
The meaning of semiaquatic.
What is living partly on land and partly in water?
300
This type of fish would be "handy" in a fight.
What is a pacific swordfish?
300
The average depth around the Channel Islands.
What is 300 feet?
400
The distance in miles from Long Beach to Santa Catalina Island.
What is 24 miles?
400
The length in meters of a Harbor Seal.
What is 1.8 meters?
400
The amount of krill a blue whale can "eat" in one day.
What is up to 7,900 lbs.?
400
This chondrichthyes has a cartilaginous skeleton...but isn't a shark?
What is the pelagic stingray?
400
This predator is considered the most aggressive.
What are fishing boats?
500
The approximate number of people that impact the Channel Island ecosystem.
What is 18.5 million?
500
This is the largest pinniped in the Channel Island ecosystem.
What is a Northern Elephant Seal?
500
This state is near the Gray Whale's Feeding Grounds.
What is Alaska?
500
This coastal bird's scientific name is "oceanodroma"?
What is the black storm-petrel?
500
This animals remains hidden under deep-water canyons.
What is the Humboldt squid?