CALIFORNIA-SPECIFC
OCEAN LIFE
RANDOM FACTS
OCEAN FEATURES
ENTERTAINMENT REFERENCES: OCEAN EDITION
100

This ocean borders California

What is the "Pacific Ocean"?

100

The largest animal on Earth

What is the "blue whale"?
100

The deepest known area of the Earth's ocean

What is the "Mariana Trench"?

100

These are caused by water being pushed upon the shore

What are "waves"?

100

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

What is "Spongebob Squarepants"?

200

The island was developed in the mid-19th century with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, and a military prison.

What is "Alcatraz Island"?

200

A group of dolphins

What is a "pod"?

200

The largest ocean in the world is the Pacific Ocean, covering around ____ of the Earth's surface

What is 30%?

200
The ocean is the greatest source of Earth's ____? (element)

What is "oxygen"?

200

An American classic horror movie released in 1975 directed by Steven Spielberg that tells the story of a great white shark that terrorizes a beach resort town

What is "Jaws"? 

300

Distance of the California coastline 

What is 840 miles long?

300

These are the only species in which the male gets pregnant and gives birth

What is "sea horse/sea dragons"?

300

The ocean is home to the world's largest living structure. It can be seen from the Moon!

What is "the Great Barrier Reef"?

300
These are caused by the pull of the moon's gravity and occur every 12 hours 

What are "tides"?

300

A song that was released on SoundCloud in 2015 by a young girl and her brother that went viral overnight

What is "Ocean Eyes" by Billie Eilish?

400

The number of beaches in California

What is 420?

400

The number of brains an octopus has

What is "9"?

400

Referred to as the "rainforests of the sea". They are home to the most diverse habitats on Earth

What are "coral reefs"?

400

This place near Mexico runs along the east coast of the U.S. bringing warmer water up from the tropics.

What is "the Gulf Stream"?

400

The name of the island in the fantasy teen drama television show "H2O: Just Add Water"

What is "Mako Island"?

500

One-third of southern California's kelp forests are found here

What is the "Channel Islands National Park" and "Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary"?

500

Most reef-building corals contain photosynthetic cells

What is "zooxanthellae"?

500

Number of inches sea levels have risen since 1880

What is "8"?

500

A portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water

What is a "continental shelf/sea shelf"? 

500

The name of the island that the hit television show "Love Island USA" is filmed on 

What is "Fiji"?