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World Ocean
Water
Sharks
Density
Ocean-Dwelling Mascots
100
The Pacific Basin
What is the largest ocean basin in the world ocean?
100
Two hydrogen atoms bonded to one oxygen atom
What is a water molecule made of?
100
cartilage
What is a shark's skeleton made of?
100
mass divided by volume
What is the formula for calculating density?
100
This major league baseball team's mascot is the Devil Ray.
What is Tampa Bay?
200
The ocean basin that is bordered by Europe, Africa, South America, and North America.
What is the Atlantic?
200
1.00 g/mL or 1.00 g/cm^3
What is the density of pure (or fresh) water?
200
These provide lift when the animal propels itself forward through the water.
What are pectoral fins?
200
This is pure water's density, in grams per milliliter.
What is 1?
200
This ocean creature is the mascot of Miami's major league baseball team.
What is a marlin?
300
This ocean basin has Eurasia as its northern boundary and Africa as its western boundary.
What is the Indian ocean basin?
300
How an object of density 0.79 grams per milliliter behaves in pure water.
What is "it floats" or floating?
300
This is the name of the fin most associated with the practice of "finning" sharks, which results in their death.
What is the dorsal fin?
300
This is what water's density would need to be in order for an object of density 1.08 g/mL to float in it.
What is anything greater than 1.08 g/mL?
300
This New Orleans NBA team's mascot preys on fish in the Gulf of Mexico.
What is a pelican?
400
This ocean basin is the smallest by volume and by area.
What is the Arctic ocean basin?
400
This is the proportion of water on Earth that is too salty for humans, animals, and plants to use or drink.
What is 97%?
400
This structure is an adaptation that allows sharks to "see" electrical impulses generated by the muscles of other fish.
What are Ampulae of Lorenzini?
400
A cube has sides all the 2 cm in length. If the cube has a mass of 21.6 grams, this is its density.
What is 2.7 g/ cm^3?
400
A whale named "Puckey" was the mascot of this city's now-defunct Whaler's NHL team.
What is Hartford?
500
These two ocean basins' currents and waters mix at the Strait of Magellan.
What are the Pacific and the Atlantic ocean basins?
500
Based on the behavior of ice cubes and icebergs, the density of ice must be this.
What is less than 1.0 g/mL or what is less than pure water's density?
500
Of the four forces acting on a swimming shark, this is the force that opposes his forward motion through the water.
What is drag?
500
An irregular object displaces 50 mL of water and has a mass of 61 grams. This is it's behavior in a liquid whose density is 1.25 g/cm^3.
What is "floats"?
500
Al the Octopus is the mascot of this city's NHL team.
What is Detroit?