Marine Zoology
The largest animal ever known to live on earth.
What is the blue whale?
This material is the most common type of trash found in the ocean.
What is plastic?
This is a group of living things that interact with each other and their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
This large-scale change is causing Earth’s oceans to warm over time.
What is climate change?
Fish use these to breathe under water.
What are gills?
Plastic trash is dangerous because animals often think it is this.
What is food?
In a food chain, plants and algae are usually at the bottom because they make their own food.
What are producers?
Loss of sea ice affects this Arctic species that hunts seals from the ice.
What is a polar bear?
This body part helps fish swim and steer in the water.
What are fins?
These very small plastic pieces can be found in water, food, and animals.
What are microplastics?
This shows who eats whom in an ecosystem.
What is a food web (or food chain)?
Melting ice caps cause this to happen to oceans.
What is sea level rise?
This group of animals includes crabs, shrimp, and lobsters.
What are crustaceans?
When animals eat plastic, it can make them feel full and lead to this.
What is starvation?
In most ecosystems, fewer organisms can survive at higher levels of a food web because there is less of this available.
What is energy?
The ocean absorbs much of this from the atmosphere, which causes it to become more acidic.
What is carbon dioxide?
This process allows corals to build reefs by extracting calcium carbonate from seawater.
What is calcification?
Plastic trash can move long distances in the ocean because of these.
What are ocean currents?
This describes an ecosystem with many different species, which usually makes it more stable.
What is high biodiversity?
Warmer oceans can harm coral reefs, causing them to turn white in an event called this.
What is coral bleaching?