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vocabulary
ocean surface animals
ocean depths animals
tides and currents
100
The measure of the amount of dissolved salts contained in water.
What is salinity.
100
this comes up and eats phytoplankton at the night fall
What is zooplankton
100
have eight legs and live on the sea floor
What is squid
100
these currents go upward
What is upwelling
200
A mass of moving ocean water.
What is ocean current.
200
a baleen whale that is the largest animal that ever lived on earth
What is blue whale
200
a hard-shelled marine invertebrate with 10 jointed legs
What is lobster
200
these tides happen during new and full moons
What is spring tide
300
A system that uses under water sound waves to measure distance and locate objects.
What is sonar
300
tiny ant-sized animals that make up colonies that are home to many animals
What is coral
300
this animal swims deep in the oceans. They have ten arms and their eyes are the size of basketballs
What is giant squid
300
these tides happen during the quarter moon
What is neap tide
400
A disturbance of wind patterns and ocean currents in the Pacific Ocean that causes temporary climate changes in many parts of the world
What is El Nino
400
animals that have stinging tentacles (you might have been stung by one of these at the beach)
What is jellyfish
400
a soft-bodied animal with a hard, protective shell
What is snail
400
a rare, unusually high tide
What is The Proxigean Spring Tide
500
A narrow stream of water that breaks through sandbars and drains rapidly back into deeper water
What is Rip Current
500
A toothed whale from the Arctic The male has a huge, spiral tooth
What is narwhal
500
fish that have a skeleton made of bones.
What is Bony Fish
500
the movement of material along a coast by waves that approach at an angle to the shore but recede directly away from it
What is long shore drift