H2O
A phenomenon where deep, cold, and nutrient-rich water rises toward the surface, replacing warmer, nutrient-depleted surface water. (deep water rises and mixes with surface water)
What is UPWELLING?
This marine mammal is similar to a sea lion, but does not have ears.
What is a SEAL?
This is an organism that eats another organism in the food web.
What is a PREDATOR?
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What is a CONSUMER?
This is the part of the earth that consists of all of the living things.
What is the BIOSPHERE?
An area of an ocean or other body of water with low or no oxygen that cannot support most marine life. (its dead)
What is a DEAD ZONE?
This important element is necessary for almost all living things, and is the highest at the surface of the ocean, decreases up to a depth of 1000 M, and then slowly increases to the deep seas.
What is OXYGEN?
This is an adaptation that whales and dolphin utilize to gather information about their surroundings. They emit a loud sound in the water and listen for the sound wave to bounce.
This is at the TOP of the food web! The ultimate version of a consumer.
What is an APEX PREDATOR?
This is the part of the earth that consists of all of the water.
What is the HYDROSPHERE?
This consumes and decomposes the dead plankton that drift to the bottom of the ocean, and consumes all of the oxygen.
What is BACTERIA?
This term is the measurement of how fast particles are moving (kinetic energy) in a substance. As you go deeper in the ocean, it suddenly decreases from depths of 250 to 1000 m.
What is TEMPERATURE?
This keeps marine mammals warm in the cold water.
What is BLUBBER?
This is the term for all organisms that create their own energy.
What is a PRODUCER?
This is the term for all of the gases and air surrounding the Earth.
What is the ATMOSPHERE?
This is form of plastic that is super tiny (under 5 mm in size).
What is a MICROPLASTIC?
This measurement increases at a linear, consistent rate the deeper you go into the ocean.
This is a protein inside of muscles that stores oxygen. It is why "red meat" appears red, and is in much higher concentration in marine mammals.
What is MYOGLOBIN?
This is an organism that lives in the ocean that produces it's own energy from sunlight.
What is PHYTOPLANKTON?
or What is ALGAE?
This is the part of the Earth that consists of all the land.
What is the LITHOSPHERE?
This is a compound made from crude oil that is used to make things like plastic and other synthetic materials. It causes pollution in its production and when the products are thrown away.
What are PETROCHEMICALS?
This term has an inverse relationship with oxygen. The higher the oxygen, the less of this there is, the lower the oxygen, the more of it there is. Hint: It is important for life.
What are NUTRIENTS?
This protein binds to oxygen and carries it throughout the body. Seals have a much higher concentration of the protein.
What is HEMOGLOBIN?
This is the term that explains how much energy is available when one organism eats another organism. (How much energy is transferred when moving up trophic levels)
This term refers to the movement of all elements and compounds throughout the different parts of the Earth.
What is the BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE?
When there is ZERO/NONE/NADA oxygen in a body of water.
What are ANOXIC CONDITIONS?