Inverts
This shelless species has incredible brain power, and is Joe's primary species of study.
Octopus
This species of dolphin is the apex predator of the oceanic food chain, and is known to eat the livers of white sharks.
Orca Whale
Is cold water or warm water better at holding nutrients?
Cold Water
This substance is the last reminate of the forests that predate humans, and is found all over the drown forest.
Petrified Wood
What is the #1 rule of scientific writing?
No personal pronouns!
What are the two most common non native species of crab?
Green crab and Asian Shore Crab
What are the four native species of seal that inhabit the Gulf of Maine?
Harbor Seal, Hooded Seal, Grey Seal, Harp Seal
What is the phenomina that causes warmer water to float on top of colder water?
Density
This type of rock is the most common in New Hampshire, and is known for is various forms and large crystals.
Granite
This species of fish is being used as a cleaner for sealice in salmon farms, and is famous for its suction cup like pelvic fin.
Lumpfish
This organism has lived unchanged in the oceans for hundreds of millions of years, and is valued for its blue blood.
Horseshoe Crab
This government act signed in 1972 gave global protection to marine mammals, and prevented there commercial harvest, as well as givning them various other rights.
Marine mammal pretection act (MMPA)
This property of water is caused by the bonding of water molecules with eachother.
Surface Tension
This group of rocks is the best for finding fossiles in, as it has had the least destructive pressure applied to it.
Sedimentary Rock
This is the worlds largest lard carnivore, it is also a marine mammal.
Polar Bear
What are the two native species of "red crab" and what is one way to tell them appart.
Rock Crab and Jonah Crab
Claw size, or carapace ridge
This species of whale was the face of the save the whales movement in the 1960-70. It gained this title for its unique array of vocalizations.
Humpback Whale
When cold nutrient rich water hits a seamount or continental shelf it is shot up towards the surface in a process known as what?
Upwelling
The Gulf of Maine was created by the outfall of what prehistoric mass?
A Glacier
This species of small fish found in saltmarshes was the first species of fish sent to space.
Mummichog
This group of invertabrates is characterized by spiny skin and radial symmetry.
Echinoderms
This is THE most endangered species of marine mammal in the world, with as few as eight individuals remaining in the world.
Vaquita
This global cycle drives the ocean currents, and global weather patterns, and is primarly a product of water tempertature and salinity
Thermohaline Circulation
The process of fossilization is when bones or orcanic material are covered in sediment for millions of years and what happens?
Minerals seep into the bones and they become rock.
This species of red-brown algae is found all across the Gulf of Maine, and is gathered for its unique thickening polysaccharide carrageenan, that is found in toothpaste and many other products.
Irish Moss