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A scientist who specializes in the research of marine organisms and ecosystems (salt-watered bodies)
What is a Marine Biologist?
Humans harvesting marine animals at increasingly high rates, depleting populations, reducing biodiversity and disrupting the ecosystem.
What is overfishing?
How sea levels and storms effect coasts
What is Coastal Erosion?
The Largest Sea turtle species, with a leathery shell.
What is a leatherback Sea turtle?
Fish that are born in freshwater, migrate to saltwater, and return to freshwater to spawn.
What is Anadromous?
Keeps our oceans healthy by monitoring underwater activity in ecosystems and marine organisms. They bring awareness to human impact on oceans.
What is a Marine Conservationist?
Plastic, oil spills, sewage, metals and runoff
What is Marine Pollution?
This current in the Atlantic Ocean moderates the climate of Western Europe, and is from the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Gulf Stream?
Largest animal on the earth.
What is a Blue Whale?
A term for the floor of the ocean
What is Benthic?
Carries out underwater tasks, like underwater construction, exploring the deep sea, and submarine rescues
What is a Diver?
Construction destroying marine habitats by the coast.
What is Coastal Development?
An ocean layer with a decrease in temperature as it grows deeper.
What is thermocline?
One of the most venomous sea creatures in the ocean, with a fatal sting.
What is a box jellyfish?
The light emission by living organisms living in the deep sea.
What is Bioluminescence?
What is a Horticulturist?
The ocean absorbing excess carbon dioxide.
What is Ocean acidification?
The deepest known part of the ocean (a trench)
What is the Mariana Trench?
An echinoderm which lives on the sea floor recycling nutrients. Resembles a vegetable.
What is a Sea Cucumber?
Gradual build-up of toxic substances in elements in an organism from consumption
What is Bioaccumulation?
Studies and researches marine life to try to develop medical treatments. Also researches how drugs interact with biology.
What is a Pharmacologist?
A stress response triggered in coral polyps due to stressors like elevated sea temperatures.
What is Coral bleaching?
These tiny plastic particles, less than 5 millimeters in size, pose a threat to marine life when ingested.
What are micro plastics?
The largest known crab species
What is the Japanese Spider Crab?
Marine organisms maintaining a balance of salt and water in their bodies
What is Osmoregulation?