Sunlight Zone
Shallow seas are no more than __________ ft dep.
What is 660 ft deep?
What is another name for a manatee?
What is a sea cow?
Coral reefs make up only around ________% of the ocean floor, but are home to __________% of ocean species.
What is 1% & 25%?
True or False. Clownfish are strong swimmers despite them only leaving their anemone homes often.
False. They are poor swimmers and rarely leave their anemones.
There are about _______ known species of parrotfish.
80
Shallow seas are characterized by:
A.) Their size
B.) What species make-up their environment
C.) What the seafloor looks like.
What is C?
The average lifespan in the wild is about how many years?
What is 1 to 3 years?
Coral colony are large groups of tiny animals called polyps living together, connected by living tissue. The polyps secrete a mineral called _____________, which forms the hard skeleton that gives the colony its shape.
How does living in the anemone help clownfish?
Gains protection from predators—which don't dare get near the stinging protector.
How do Parrotfish help the reef by accidentally eating it?
When they eat on the coral, they create gaps in the reef that are filled in by new coral growth. They also clear away excess algae, which can smother the coral and prevent it from growing. Without parrotfish, the whole coral ecosystem would collapse.
The world's largest seagrass meadow resides here.
Where is Australia?
If you ate like an otter, you would need to eat how many hamburgers everyday
What is 24 hamburgers? (This is a quarter of its own weight).
The approximate number of hard coral species around the world is _________. These species support more than _________ species of fish!
What is 1,000 & 4,000?
Clownfish do what before taking up residence in anemone?
The mucus produced by parrotfish helps do what?
Scientist think these bubbles likely act as sort of protective sleeping bags to shield the fish from blood-sucking parasites and predators like eels and sharks.
Giant kelp can grow how many inches in a single day?
What is 24 inches?
The tiny pores the sea urchin's spines protrude from is called what.
What is a test?
World wide _____ of all coral reefs have died?
More than half
How many clownfish species are known?
What is 30?
Up to _____% of the white sand found on some beaches in Hawaii and the Caribbean is made of the ground-up coral that these fish leave behind.
70%
True or False. Nearly 2 football fields are lost every hour due to human impact on seagrass meadows?
What is true?
Sea otters have the densest fur of any animal. There are around how many hairs in a space the size of a quarter?
What is 1 million hairs?
What is bleaching?
When water is too warm, corals will expel the algae living in their tissues causing the coral to turn completely white. This is called coral bleaching.
Name two benefits for the anemone having fish live inside it
The clownfish nibbles away parasites that bug the anemone. And sometimes the anemonefish brings food into the tentacles which the anemone can also eat.
Scientists analyzing the structure of these chompers discovered that they’re harder than a penny and can withstand ______ tons of pressure-- that's the same as the weight of about ____ elephants!
530 tons & 88 elephants