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What is an adaptation?
What is the evolutionary process where an organism becomes increasingly well suited to living in a particular habitat.
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Which animal's jelly-like body and lack of muscle allow it to float in the deep sea using very little energy?
What is a blobfish.
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In which directions can a beluga whale swim?
What are forwards, backwards, and upside down. 
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What causes corals to bleach?
What is climate change, which is caused by global warming.
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Which animal has eight tentacles?
What is an octopus.
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What causes the process of adaptation?
What is natural selection.
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What adaptation does a dolphin have to help it breathe?
What is a blowhole.
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What purpose does a walrus's thick, piston-like tongue serve?
What is a vacuum, creating suction to suck clams out of their shells. 
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What is acoustic smog and what does it do to whales?
What are the loud noises made by ships that make it hard for whales to communicate with one another. The consequences of this include heightened stress levels and decreased mating and feeding opportunities.
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What does a dolphin's signature whistle do?
What is as a means of identification, as a way for a calf to know its mother, and for social interaction.
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How long does the process of adaptation take?
What are many generations.
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What is so special about a monkfish's dorsal fin?
What is the fact that it is a fishing rod-like protuberance that attracts small fish for it to eat. 
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What kind of fish is Dory?
What is a palette surgeonfish.
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According to Greenpeace, we have removed how much of the large fish in the ocean?
What is two-thirds.
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Which animal's tail and back are adorned with poisonous spikes?
What is a palette surgeonfish.
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Why does the process of adaptation occur?
What is so that organisms are better adapted to their environment and are more likely to survive and breed. 
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Which creature has some species that can regrow their entire bodies from just a severed limb?
What is a starfish, or sea star.
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Why are a sea turtle's neck and limbs not retractable?
What is because the shell adaptations necessary for this would impede fast swimming.
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In the most polluted places, what is the ratio of the mass of plastic to the mass of plankton?
What is six to one.
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What is the chemical reaction that creates light?
What is bioluminescence.
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How many main categories of adapations are there and what are they?
What are three main categories: structural, physiological, and behavioral.
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Name three adaptations a seahorse has.
What are gills, the ability to change colors, a long, circular snout, a curly tail, a swim bladder, and two pectoral fins. 
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How many hearts and brains do octopuses have?
What are three hearts and nine brains.
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Name fifteen ways we can help our oceans. 
What are buying green power, conserving water, conserving electricity, charging electronics sparingly, biking, carpooling, taking public transportation, walking, trying to reduce your carbon footprint, buying less fish, buying safe fish, reducing the number of material goods you buy, not stepping on coral reefs, not breaking off pieces of coral, using sunscreen only when necessary, using a golf ball-sized amount of sunscreen, waiting before going in the water after putting on sunscreen, recycling, keeping your garden organic, leaving shells alone, picking up litter, minimizing your purchases with plastic packaging, and using reusable materials such as fabric grocery bags and metal water bottles.
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Which two things do octopuses use to change the color and texture of our skin?
What are chromatophores and papillae.