Canada's Oceans
What is the Moon?
Would you find the sunlight zone on the top or bottom layer of the ocean?
What is the top layer
Ink expulsion, jet propulsion and camoflauge are defense mechanisms used by this animal
Shallow pockets of ocean water found along rocky coasts are called what?
Tide pools
This the largest and deepest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific ocean?
This ocean borders British Columbia. It is the ocean you explore at Belcarra beach.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
How many ocean layers are there?
What is 5 layers
This marine animal can regenerate, or regrow body parts
What is a starfish?
Name three features of a tidepool, what marine life might you find here?
What are barnacles, anenomies, seaweed, crabs, plankton, starfish etc.
The ocean covers what percentage of the Earth's surface?
What is approximately 70%
These three oceans border Canada
What are the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic oceans?
This zone holds 90% of all marine life!
What is the sunlight zone?
This is an example of a marine symbiotic relationship... think of the movie Finding Nemo
What is a clownfish and sea anenome? The sea anemone provides protection and the clownfish clean and eats debrie off the anenome
Humans have explored approximately this much of the ocean.
What is 5%
If you are fishing along the West Coast what three types of fish are you most likely to catch?
What is Salmon, Herring and Rockfish (or Lingcod)
These are the names of each of the ocean layers
What is sunlight zone, twilight zone, midnight zone, the abyss, the trenches
A "smack" is a gathering of what type of animal?
What are jellyfish?
Where would you find coral polyps in the ocean?
This area of the ocean is commonly where ships and aircrafts are known to disappear under mysterious circumstances
What is the bermuda triangle?
These factors are posing a threat to the health of Canada's oceans. Points for each factor you can name.
What is overfishing, shipping, tourism, oil pollution, climate change etc.
Creatures with none, or no big eyes, slow metabolisms and soft bodies have adapted to live in this ocean zone
What is the abyssal zone. Examples include squids, angler fish and sea pigs (like sea cucumbs)
Ichthyology is the study of what type of marine animal?
What are sharks
These factors affect the temperature, saltiness and oxygen levels within a tidepool
What is weather. On sunnier days, the warm temperature heats up tidepools and evaporates water quickly turning them into salty habitats
Challenger Deep is the name of the deepest spot within what area, located in the Western North Pacific ocean
What is the Marianas Trench?