Vocabulary
the branch of science that investigates the organisms that live in salt water
What is Marine Biology?
the earth is covered by this much water
What is 71%?
the things all living things need
What is water, air to breathe, and food?
What is the leatherback?
these are marine animals that have backbones or spinal columns
What are vertebrates?
animals with no backbone or spinal column
the warmest water can be found here
What is the equator?
What is symmetry?
when animals move to a new place based on seasons
What is migration?
the term used to describe a group of fish
What is a school?
a limestone ridge that is formed from hard coral
What is a coral reef?
What is the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Ocean?
a starfish turns this color when it is dead
What is bleached white?
a shark can go through more than 30,000 of these in one lifetime
a shallow body of water that remains within rocks along the intertidal zone during low tide
What is density?
a sea urchin loses this when it dies
What are its spines?
the gill cover of a fish
What is the operculum?
the ability of an animal to find the location of an object by making a sound and hearing the sound reflected
What is echolocation?
the five ocean layers
What is sunlight, twilight, midnight, abyss, and trench?