Marine Biology
The worst killer of coral.
What is pollution?
What type of marine animal has three hearts?
What is a cephalopod?
The number of oceans in the world.
what is five, seven, or 1?
Because the Earth rotates through two tidal “bulges” every lunar day, coastal areas experience this many tides total per 24 hours and 50 minutes.
What is four?
Name three common materials that can be recycled.
What is plastic, cardboard (paper), and glass?
What type of crustacean is considered the "ultimate life form?"
What is a crab?
Name the marine mammal that produces the loudest sound made by any animal on the planet.
What is a Blue whale?
An underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics.
What is mid-ocean ridge?
Two natural events that directly affect tide strength.
What are rain and tsunamis?
A common household product used to clean animals after an oil spill.
What is dish soap?
Eye spots on sea stars are used to detect...
What is light and dark?
Name the two types of water salmon can inhabit.
What is freshwater and saltwater? Salmon are born in freshwater, travel to saltwater, and later return to freshwater to spawn.
The percentage of the Earth that is covered by water.
What is ~71%?
The difference between high and low tides.
What is tidal range?
Non-biodegradable material that ends up in the ocean and is harmful to marine life.
What is plastic?
What type of marine invertebrate is most closely related to us humans?
What are chordates/sea squirts/lancelets?
The length of time in which a Great White shark can go without eating.
What is three months?
The major cause of ocean tides.
What is the gravitational pull of the moon?
A spring tide occurs during these two moon phases.
What is New Moon and Full Moon?
Every year, 14 billion pounds of these types of waste are dumped into the ocean.
What is sewage, sludge, and garbage?
Plants struggle to adapt to what in a marine environment.
What is salinity? Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water.
One of the earliest animals, swims with jet propulsion.
What is jellyfish?
The reason that the surface currents curve clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counter clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis effect?
A period of moderate tides when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other.
What is a neap tide?
The length of time it takes for plastic to decompose.
What is 400 years?