Water
Animals
Zones
Oceans
Anything goes!
100
The two types of water are...?
What is salt water and fresh water.
100
Name two ocean mammals.
What is the killer whale, narwhal, beluga whale, walrus, sea otters, etc.
100
What is the first zone of the ocean?
What is the surface.
100
What ocean is closest to Montana?
What is Pacific Ocean.
100
How often do the ocean tides change?
What is about every 12 hours, 1 high and 1 low tide in a day.
200
How much of earth's water is drinkable?
What is 1%.
200
Name two ocean reptiles.
What is the sea snake, the saltwater crocodile, and sea turtles.
200
What is the deepest zone or part of the ocean?
What is the marianas trench.
200
What Ocean runs along the eastern coast of the United States?
What is Atlantic.
200
What causes ocean tides to change?
What is the moons gravitational pull.
300
What percent of the earth is made up of water?
What is about 70%.
300
Define a mammal.
What is a warm blooded being that nurses its young and usually gives live birth.
300
Name the seven areas/zones of the ocean we discussed in class from top to bottom.
What is surface, sunlit zone, twilight zone, dark zone, abyssal zone, hydrothermal vents, and the marianas trench.
300
What ocean is the marianas trench in?
What is the western Pacific.
300
What are the three forms that water can take on?
What is a liquid, solid, or gas.
400
What percent of the earth's water is glacier ice?
What is 2%.
400
Define what a reptile is.
What is a cold blooded creature that usually has scaly skin and lays soft-shell eggs.
400
Why do we refer to one zone as "hydrothermal vents?"
What is this area of the ocean has underwater vents in the earths crust that release extremely hot water from inside the earth.
400
Which ocean was most recently added to the list of oceans?
What is the Southern ocean.
400
Name three forms of precipitation.
What is snow, rain, sleet, and hail.
500
What percent of the earth's water is saltwater?
What is 97%.
500
Name at least two animals that spending their time in both the oceans and on land.
What is polar bears, sea turtles, seals, and sea lions.
500
In what zone do bioluminescent creatures dwell? Bonus for explaining what bioluminescence is.
What is dark zone. Bioluminescence is the "glowing" effect of some sea creatures.
500
What are the names of all five oceans?
What is Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, and Southern.
500
What is evaporation?
What is when liquid water turns into vapor, usually heat has to be used to cause this change.