Living Light/Reasons to Glow
The colors that glowing animals can glow
What are red, yellow, green, and blue?
The thing that the special chemicals glowing animals contain mixes with to produce light
What is oxygen?
True or false, jellyfish glow from the outside
What is false?
Most bioluminescent animals live here
Where is the ocean?
Scientists use animal bioluminescence to learn more about diseases like
What is cancer?
A firefly is this kind of insect
What is a beetle?
True or false? Many glowing animals can turn their light on and off.
What is true?
Some animals make their own glow by doing what
What is by mixing the chemicals in their bodies with oxygen?
Glowing animals live in these oceans
What is all of them?
The ocean covers about this percentage of the Earth
What is 70%?
Fireflies produce their light in this body part
What is the abdomen?
Bioluminescent animals have these 2 chemicals in their bodies
What are luciferin and luciferase?
Tiny animals get their glow with help from this
What is bacteria?
The middle part of the ocean, dim like when the sun goes down is called this
What is the twilight zone?
Green bombers release this
What are little balloons of skin filled with green glowing fluid?
Animals that make their own glow are called this
What is bioluminescent?
Ocean animals typically flash these 2 colors
What are blue and green?
The flashlight fish has this many bacteria in a pouch under its eye
What is a billion?
The number of the animals that live in the deepest part of the ocean that are bioluminescent
What is all of them?
The largest habitat on Earth is this
What is the ocean?
The Greek word for life is "bio", the Greek word for glowing is this word
What is luminescent?
Glowing land animals typically flash these colors
What are yellow and green?
The nylon shrimp squirts chemicals into the ocean water and mixes with this to make its glow
What is oxygen?
Besides the firefly and the glow worm, the other land animals that is bioluminescent
What is the 2 colored railroad worm?
Scientists use glowing animals to learn more about this
What is nature?