Deep Dive
What are the five oceans?
Which ocean zone has the most diverse amount of life?
The sunlight zone.
Is coral a plant or an animal?
Do sea turtles lay eggs on land or in the ocean?
Land.
Is this animal a fish?
STARFISH
No.
Which is the biggest predatory fish in the ocean?
Are manatees herbivores or carnivores?
Herbivores.
What are the ocean's two characteristics that help ocean animals live and thrive?
#1 - Water Temperature
#2 - Salt Content
How do sea plants produce food?
Photosynthesis
What color is the blood of Cephalopods?
Blue (because of the high copper content)
What is the largest living reptile?
Saltwater crocodile.
Is this animal a fish?
Great White Shark
Yes
What is a shark's skeleton made from?
Cartilage.
What protects arctic animals from the cold?
Blubber.
What causes *deep* ocean currents?
Deep ocean currents are caused by differences in density.
How do animals in the midnight zone create light?
Bioluminescence
What is an adult jellyfish called?
A Medusa.
A sea turtle's body temperature is ectothermic. What does that mean?
Their body temperature is the same as their surrounding.
Is this animal a fish?
JELLYFISH
What is the smallest shark?
Spiny Dwarf Lantern Shark
Baleen and Toothed
What causes surface currents?
Wind. Uneven heating and cooling in the atmosphere causes wind that pushes across the surface of the ocean to form surface currents.
What are the ocean zones?
Intertidal, Sunlight, Twilight, Midnight, Abyssal, Hadal
(Epipelagic, Mesopelagic, Bathypelagic, Abyssopelagic, Hadopelagic)
Cnidarians and echinoderms can be divided more than one way and still be symmetrical. Is this bilateral or radial symmetry?
Radial.
What do iguanas have that allow them to sneeze out excess salt from their body?
Salt gland.
Is this animal a fish?
PUFFERFISH
Yes.
What organ controls a shark's sense of smell?
Olfactory organ (nare)
How do whales determine the size and distance of objects around them?
Echolocation.
What causes the Coriolis Effect?
The Earth's rotation. Air and water in the northern hemisphere curve to the right. Air and water in the southern hemisphere curves to the left.
How are ocean zones divided?
By the amount of light present
Why do fish swim in a school?
Fish that swim together in a school can swim faster and conserve energy because they encounter less water friction when swimming together as a group.
What are the five unique characteristics of Marine Reptiles?
1. Vertebrates
2. Breathe Air
3. Scaly Skin
4. Lay Leathery Eggs on Land
5. Ectothermic
Is this animal a fish?
SAWFISH
Yes.
What do sharks use to detect prey's electrical field?
There is a mass of tissue on the forehead of toothed whales. What is it called?
A Melon.