First Quarter
A type of tree that grows in saltwater.
What is a mangrove?
An inability to move because an organism is attached to the ocean floor.
What is sessile?
All vertebrates have two equal halves.
What is bilateral symmetry?
Stronger tides that occur when the sun, moon, and earth are all aligned.
What is a spring tide?
An animal that does not have a backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
A type of algal bloom caused by an overabundance of dinoflagellates in the water.
What is a red tide?
A stinging cell found on the tentacles of Cnidarians.
What is a nematocyst?
This is a family of whales or dolphins.
What is a pod?
What is a solvent?
What is a hot spot?
A type of symbiotic relationship that exists between a shark and a remora fish.
What is commensalism?
The ability to regulate water in marine organisms.
What is osmoregulation?
When whales and dolphins jump out of the water.
What is breaching?
The mass per unit volume of a substance.
What is density?
This occurs when corals become stressed due to high temperatures and remove the algae living in their tissues.
What is coral bleaching?
A place where freshwater and saltwater meet and mix.
What is an estuary?
Cephalopods use these in order to camouflage themselves from predators.
What is a chromatophore?
Another word, besides Chondrichthyes, that refers to the sharks, skates, and rays.
What is an elasmobranch?
This occurs when one tectonic plate is pushed under another.
What is subduction?
An organism with the ability to produce both sets of gametes.
What is a hermaphrodite?
This occurs when a body of water in an environment becomes enriched with nutrients.
What is eutrophication?
This is a type of dinoflagellate that lives in a symbiotic relationship with coral.
What is zooxanthellae?
This is the ability to slow the heart rate down on a deep dive.
What is bradycardia?
This is a term that refers to low dissolved oxygen levels in the ocean.
What is hypoxia?
These are diving injuries associated with changes in pressure.
What are barotraumas?