Marine Birds and Mammals
A thick layer of fat that can be found in marine mammals, which helps insulate them against cold temperatures.
What is blubber?
The primary driver of ocean surface currents.
What is wind?
A form of marine plant life that creates an underwater meadow effect.
What is seagrass?
Fish breathe underwater using these.
What are gills?
Spongebob often caught these in a net in Bikini Bottom.
A marine mammal with a unique ability to use tools, (ex. using rocks to crack open shellfish).
What is the sea otter?
The name of the deepest part of the world’s oceans, located in the western Pacific Ocean.
What is the Mariana Trench?
The scientific term for tiny, floating marine plants that are a crucial part of the ocean's food web.
What is phytoplankton?
Bony fish have a backbone. This means that they are...
What are vertebrates?
Ariel's sidekick in The Little Mermaid.
Who is Flounder?
A bird species is known for its bright bill and is often seen in temperate waters of the North Atlantic.
What is a Puffin?
The largest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The three major marine algae color groups are green, brown, and......
What is red?
Many fish have this fin on the top of their back.
What is a dorsal fin?
Nemo and other clown fish live in this plant-like animal.
What is an anemone?
The largest species of seal.
What is the Southern Elephant Seal?
The movement of nutrient-rich water from the deep ocean up to the surface, commonly increasing marine productivity.
What is upwelling?
This marine plant can live in both saltwater and freshwater environments, and is often found in brackish water.
What are mangrove trees?
A type of fish known for migrating thousands of miles to spawn in freshwater rivers.
What are eels?
The name of the dolphin in Dolphin Tale.
Who is Winter?
A seabird known for its ability to sleep while flying and can often spend months at sea without touching land.
What is an Albatross?
A large, underwater mountain formed by volcanic activity that rises high from the seafloor.
What is a seamount?
The primary function of the blades in kelp.
What is absorbing sunlights and nutrients?
The family that a herring is in.
What is Clupeidae?
The number of Sharknado movies.
What is six?