Oceans and Seas
A piece of land completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
When there is a lot of trash around, causing harm to the animals' habitats.
What is pollution/littering?
The smallest form of life that starts a marine food chain. (double points for both answers)
What are phytoplankton and algae?
The main cause of rising sea levels.
What is global warming?
The largest island in the world.
What is Greenland?
The amount of water that covers the surface of Earth as a percentage.
What is 70%? (approximate is accepted)
When people fish too much and cause the destruction and reduction of marine habitats.
What is overfishing?
The biggest fish that is NOT a shark.
What is a giant oceanic manta ray? (manta ray accepted)
The percentage of the earth's oxygen that is produced by the deep sea. (one guess only)
What is 70?
A natural disaster which follows an earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
They are the names of 4 oceans on Earth.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic Oceans?
When people come to visit foreign places for fun.
What is tourism?
An underwater ecosystem formed from colonies of organisms held together by calcium carbonate.
What is a coral reef?
The depth of the deepest part of the ocean in meters.
What is 11,000?
What is the moon?
The percentage of ocean that has been explored by humans. (only one guess allowed)
What is 20? (5-20 accepted)
What is plastic waste?
A small organism that gets carried by the tide and currents of the water.
What is plankton?
The name of the deepest part of the ocean located in the Pacific Ocean. (double points for exact name)
What is the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench?
The country with the most islands, with over 260,000 of them.
What is Sweden?
The average depth of the oceans in kilometers.
What is 4?
The substance leaked when an oil spill occurs.
What is petroleum?
The longest living marine mammal that can live over 200 years. (Double points for full name)
What is the bowhead whale?
It won the "World's Ugliest Animal" award in 2013.
What is the blobfish?
The oldest item to have been found from a shipwreck dating to 3,300 years ago. (Double points for correct term)
What is an amphora (pottery/jug)?