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True or False. The Twilight Zone is greatly devoid of life.
What is False. Recent studies suggest that the biomass of fish in the twilight zone may be 10x greater than thought -- more than in all the rest of the ocean combined.
True or False. Sea otters are among the many aquatic animals that have blubber.
What is False? Unlike most aquatic animals, sea otters do NOT have blubber but a thick underfur.
How many clownfish species are known?
What is 30?
Anglerfish mouths are so big and their bodies sso pliable, they can swallow prey up to _______ to their own size?
What is twice?
True or False. Unlike many animals, which rely on bacteria to produce this light, the firefly squid produces the light inside its own cells.
What is True?
Giant kelp can grow how many inches in a single day?
What is 24 inches?
Sea urchins usually eat drifting seaweed, but when there are a lot of urchins, they will also go after kelp. What part of the kelp do they chew away at making the kelp break free and float away?
What is the holdfast?
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 88 elephants!
What is 530 tons?
True or False. A female Anglerfish will carry no more than 3 males on her body.
Firefly Squid are mostly found where?
A.) East Coast of US
B.)Western Pacific Ocean
C.) Southern Coast of Africa
What is B.) specifically around Japan's coast?
Shallow seas are no more than __________ ft dep.
What is 660 ft deep?
With a single breath manatees can replace _____ percent of the air in their lungs.
What is 90%?
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.
What is 70%?
Photophores are what?
The concentrated spotlight production in the skin of bioluminescent animals.
The world's largest seagrass meadow resides here.
Where is Australia?
When blue crabs are cooked, heat deactivates the blue pigment and turns the what color?
What is red?
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.
What is Calcium Carbonate?
Baby anglerfish are called:
A.) Fever
B.)Pup
C.)Spawn
What is C.) spawn?
Firefly squid have about how many photophores on their body?
A.)500
B.) 2,000
C.) 800
What is C?
The ocean absorbs about a ________ of the carbon dioxide that human activities emit into the atmosphere.
What is about a quarter.
A resting manatee can remain submerged for up to how many minutes?
What is 15 minutes?
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.
Their most distinctive feature, which is worn by only _______ , is a piece of dorsal spine that protrudes above their mouths like a fishing pole.
What are females?
Firefly squid come to the surface at night to do what?
What is either to hunt or for laying eggs?