Tank Habitats
What do we feed the moon jellies?
Brine shrimp, sea monkeys, plankton, zooplankton
What is the term for a huge wave that is usually caused by an underwater earthquake?
Tsunami
Name 3 zones that we included in our ocean zones craft.
Sunlight, Twilight, Midnight, Abyss, and Trench
What is the term for an organism that cannot make its own food and eats other organisms?
Consumer
What is the name of a person who takes care of aquariums and the animals inside?
An aquarist, husbandry staff
What are the 2 hard parts found within the squid?
The pen and the beak
What is the term for an organism that makes its own food? Give an example of a marine organism that falls into this category.
Producer - seaweed, algae, phytoplankton
Name 2 out of the 4 whale feeding strategies that we learned about on Tuesday.
Gulper, Biter, Skimmer, and Bubble Netter
What is one thing that we need to think about when deciding what animals to put in the tank?
Predator/prey relationships
Water Quality (temperature, salinity, pH)
Name two types of tectonic plate boundaries
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
What is the main food source for baleen whales?
Krill
What is the name for the behavior in which a group of fish follows each other/moves together? Why do fish engage in this behavior?
Schooling
Safety in numbers, protection from predators
What are the three variables that we checked during water quality testing?
Salinity, Temperature, and pH
What is a benefit of using an ROV instead of a submarine?
Accept all relevant answers; examples include:
Can dive deeper
Can dive for longer
Less expensive
What is bycatch and why is it bad?
Accidentally caught animals that are not the target species - this is bad because it causes unnecessary harm and death to marine life
What are the names of 3 stages in the jelly life cycle?
Define abiotic and biotic. Give an example of abiotic and biotic factors in the kelp forest ecosystem.
Abiotic (non-living): Water, sand, mud, rocks
Biotic (living): Kelp, crabs, urchins, fish, plankton, etc.
What are the 3 different types of rocks? How is each type formed.
Metamorphic: heat and pressure
Sedimentary: weathering/erosion plus compaction
Igneous: cooling of magma, lava
What are the 5 characteristics of mammals?
1. Breath air
2. Warm blooded
3. Live birth
4. Have fur
5. Drink milk
What kind of animal is Petunia and what are her feeding strategies?
California Moray Eel - predator, hides to hunt (camouflage)