Ocean Characteristics
The branch of science that investigates the organisms that live in salt water.
What is Marine Biology
Animals with no backbone or spinal column.
All fish breathe through these.
What are gills?
Most fish have bony skeletons, but sharks skeletons are made of this.
What is cartilage?
Coral falls into this category of life.
The five oceans of the earth are these.
What are Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern?
Jellyfish can be clear, vibrant in color or even _________ which means they make their own light.
What is bioluminescent?
A fish's body temperature will be the same as their environments. This trait means that they are this.
What is ectothermic or cold blooded?
The largest shark is also the largest fish at 60 ft long.
What is the Whale shark?
All coral is divided up into two types.
What is hard and soft coral?
The ocean's ebb and flow of high and low tide is caused by this.
What is the moon's gravitational pull?
Clownfish and this cnidarian animal have a mutualistic relationship.
What is a sea anemone?
When a group of fish swims together in the same direction in a synchronized manner.
What is schooling?
This shark can jump 10 ft out of the water to catch its prey.
What is the great white shark?
Coral colonies have these growing together in a group.
What are coral polyps?
A shallow body of water that remains within rocks along the intertidal zone during low tide.
What is a tide pool?
Starfish extend this outside of their body to engulf prey.
What is their stomach?
The fin on top of a fish is called this.
What is the dorsal fin?
Sharks possess this phenomenal sense.
What is the sense of smell?
What is a coral reef?
The six zones of the ocean.
What are intertidal, sunlight, twilight, midnight, abyss, trench?
This mollusk is related to octopus and squid.
What is the cuttlefish?
regulation of blood glucose levels
what is a negative feedback loop
This is the smallest known shark at 8 inches long.
What is the spiny dwarf lantern shark?
These stressors can cause coral to become white, also known as coral bleaching.
What is increased water temperatures, chemicals and polution?