CREATURES
This animal produces light on its underside so that it is hard for predators to spot it.
What is the hatchetfish?
This is a long range of mountains found in the middle of the ocean floor.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
This is the zone that is freezing all the time.
What is the dark zone?
The main producers in the ocean are called this.
What is phytoplankton?
This is what some of the creatures with bioluminescence eat - dead plants and animals.
What is marine snow?
The sea urchin protects and moves around with the ____.
What is the carrier crab?
This is the edge of the continent that is under shallow water.
What is the continental shelf?
This is the ocean zone that receives the most light and warmth from the sun.
What is the sunlight zone?
These organisms get their energy by eating other living things as food.
What is a consumer?
This is how bioluminscence benefits the hatchetfish.
What is Bioluminescence helps the hatchetfish blend in making it hard for predators to spot them?
The coral reef stays clean because of _____ that eats plants that grow on the reef.
What is the parrotfish?
What are the continental shelf and continental slope?
In this zone, bioluminescent organisms live here.
What is the twilight zone?
This is where consumers get their energy.
What is eating other living things?
This is how God designed the giant isopods to live in the dark zone.
What is they roll into a ball if attacked?
What is they feel for food on the floor with their antennae?
This is one way that God's design of the rattail fish allows him to survive and grow in the dark zone.
What is the rattail moves slowly to save energy?
What is it uses taste buds on its fin to find prey on the ocean floor?
These features of the ocean floor are like the earth's land features.
What are mountains, valleys, and plains?
In this zone the vampire squid lives.
What is the dark zone?
These are two ways I can know that God created creatures to live in all parts of the ocean.
What is God planned a special way for each organism to survive and grow where they live?
These are 2 ways of how bioluminescence benefits some organisms.
What are it helps to attract prey and confuses/startles its predators?
This creature changes minerals from the water into energy.
What is the tubeworm?
These ocean floor features are different from the earth's land features.
What are continental shelf, continental slope, and deep trenches?
Almost no sunlight reaches this zone.
What is the twilight zone?
Lisa heard at school the the dragonfish evolved bioluminescence over millions of years. How does she know that is not true?
What is Lisa believes God created the dragonfish to produce light? God designed creatures for environments with structures they need to grow and survive.
This is one way that bioluminescence benefits the big fin reef squid in the twilight zone.
What is the big fin reef squid uses its light to attract prey?
What is the squid can flash its light quickly to startle and confuse its predators.