Oceanography
The winds near the equator that sailors have been using for hundreds of years to trade goods
What are Tradewinds?
The number of blowholes that Baleen Whales have
What is two?
This piece of technology can collect information on sea surface temperatures, wave height and current speeds.
What are buoys?
An invasive fish that has decimated Caribbean Reef systems by outcompeting local fish populations.
Who is a Lionfish?
The largest pinniped on earth.
Who is the Elephant Seal?
This warm surface current travels from florida to Europe and warms the british isles.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The biggest whale in the ocean at 90 feet.
What is the blue whale?
The ecosystem services of this habitat include filtering polluted water, buffer storms and provide a home for countless species.
What is a salt marsh/estuary?
I primarily feed on seagrass in Southern Florida.
Who is the Manatee?
This ocean phenomenon that occurs on the coasts of California and Peru bringing cold, nutrient rich water to the surface, supporting enormous fisheries.
What is an Upwelling?
A adaptation that dolphins use this to help them "see".
What is echolocation?
The scientist Jacques Cousteau helped develop this underwater breathing technology that was essential to observing organisms underwater.
SCUBA
The area of floating plastic debri the size of Texas in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch?
I have the densest fur of any animal on earth.
Who is a Sea Otter?
The "great whales" have this unique feature which allows them to filter feed.
What is Baleen?
What are satellites?
The primary cause for coral bleaching events on the Northern Great Barrier Reef.
What is warmer oceans?
I have black skin and translucent fur to stay warm in the frigid Arctic conditions.
Who are Polar Bears?
The largest tidal ranges of the year when the moon and sun are aligned.
What are Spring Tides?
I dive deep in the ocean to eat Giant Squid.
What is a Sperm Whale?
An unoccupied underwater robot that is connected to a ship by a series of cables. These cables transmit command and control signals between the operator and the device allowing navigation
ROV: remote operated vehicles
The most sustainable method of fishing
What is pole and line fishing?
Name of the Act which Protects Seals and other marine mammals from humans.
Marine Mammal Protection Act