Experiments
What is the pH of water?
7
What type jellies are in the touch tank?
Moon jellies!
What are the two biggest animals on the planet that eat plankton?
Blue whale and whale shark
What is a Hypothesis?
What we think is going to happen
What type of water is in Long Island Sound?
Brackish Water
Which one has a higher density? Fresh water of salt water?
Salt water
What type of sharks are in the Open Ocean Tank.
Sand Tiger and Sandbar Sharks
What's the biggest plankton in the world?
Jellies (Lion's Mane)
What is a procedure?
The steps to conduct our experiments
Asian shore crab, green crab, Chinese mitten crab
Define independent variable
What is the horseshoe crab's closest relative?
scorpion/spider
What is the difference between phytoplankton and zooplankton?
Zoo= animals
Give an example of a dependent variable
Location of the brine shrimp/crab
What is the name of the net we used at the beach?
Seine net
What are the tools we used to do tank maintenance?
Thermometer, hydrometer, pH meter/pH strips, YSI meter
Name all eight seals.
Tillie, Rasal, Leila, Polly, Ariel, Gracie, Fiesty, and SoNo
What does zooplankton eat?
Phytoplankton
Name 2 things that are in a proposal for an experiment
Names, animal, materials, procedure
What are the 2 types of fish we caught at the beach?
Tautog, pipefish, silversides, mummichog
What are the 4 turtles we used in our experiments
Box Turtle, Pancake Tortoise, Leopard Tortoise, and Diamondback Terrapin
What kind of sea turtles do we have at the aquarium?
Name 2 plankton we saw on the boat
copepod, barnacle, diatoms, dinoflagellates, isopod
Why do we do research for an experiment?
To get an idea of what might happen
Name a schooling fish
porgy, silversides, blue runner