Marine Adaptations
This adaptation of marine vertebrates involves the apeparance of the organism. Sub categories of it include Countershading, Cryptic, Warning, and Disruptive.
What is coloration?
Examples of these are dolphins, whales, manatees, otters
What are marine mammals?
What chordata do seabirds belong to?
Chardata Aves
What is the name of the chordata reptiles belong to?
Chordata reptilia
This behavioral adaptation is often used seasonally. Organisms practice it due to shifting climate, for hunting purposes, for breeding, and for environmental factors
What is migration?
List 2 characteristics of marine mammals that they share with their terrestrial counterparts
live births, nursing their young, hair at birth, warm blooded, breath atmospheric O2, mammary glands, etc.
Give an example of a seabird
gulls, tubenoses, penguins, pelicans
Give an example of a marine reptile
sea turtles, snakes, marine iguanasm and saltwater crocodiles
This physical adaptation allows organisms to intake water through their mouths, consume the plankton in the water and then filter the sea water back out into the ocean
What is filter feeding?
What are the 3 orders of chordata mammals?
Cetecea, Sirenia, and Carnivora
Give 2 examples of adaptations sea birds have
waterproof feathers, migratory adaptations, large wingspans
List 2 adaptations (behavioral or physical) marine reptiles have to live near the ocean
expelling saltwater from their bodies
laying eggs on the shore
living in warmer waters
This behavioral adaptation involves team effort during hunting. The strategy corners fish, making it easier for hunters to trap prey.
Or
Prey accumulate to ward off predators because of safety in numbers
What is cooperative herding?
Name 2 of the greatest differences between pinnipeds and fissipeds
What are paw-like hands, higher intelligence overall, descended from an ancestor of dogs, cats, bears.
balancing food webs, fertilizing plankton, moving/cycling nutrients
What does is mean to be a poikilotherm?
temperature mimics the environment, they can't maintain their body temperature