Fall & Spookiness
This day is when the Autumn Equinox usually is.
September 22
Day, time and location of our weekly cleanups
Sundays 11am to Noon at Iribe Center for Computer Science & Engineering
Gas most responsible for global warming
Carbon dioxide, CO2
Biggest ocean animal
Blue whale
The zones of the ocean in depth order
Sunlight Zone, Twilight Zone, Midnight Zone, Abyssal Zone, Hadal Zone
"Vintage" name for Halloween.
All Hallows' Eve
Name 3 members of the SOA executive board
Anna, Ashley, Cecilia, Chloe, Megan, River, Sabrina, Sienna
The process of coral losing its color
Bleaching
Amount of hearts an octopus has
3
Deepest place in the ocean (that we know of)T
The Mariana Trench/Challenger Deep
Pumpkin, hot dog, bat, ghost, bumblebee
Year SOA was founded
2014
The US agency that's primarily in charge of ocean health
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA)
A group of jellyfish is called...
A smack
The salinity of the ocean in parts per million (closest guess wins)
35,000 ppm
Scooby-Doo
Name 3 animals on the SOA sticker.
Seal, crab, jellyfish, coral, starfish, etc.
The process by which water is oversaturated with nutrients, causing harmful algal blooms
Eutrophication
Photosynthetic endosymbiont that gives coral its color
Dinoflagellates, specifically zooxanthellae
The pressure at the deepest discovered point in the ocean feels like this many elephants standing on top of you (closest guess wins)
100 elephants
The next year when Halloween will occur under a full moon
2039
Name of SOA's original founder
Daniela Fernandez
A rough estimate of how many pieces of plastic are in the ocean (closest guess wins)
Around 171 trillion pieces
Name three sea creatures with bioluminescence.
Anglerfish, lanternfish, firefly squid, deep-sea dragonfish, atolla jellyfish, comb jelly, cookiecutter shark, vampire squid, hatchetfish, flashlight fish, krill, giant squid, sea pen, crystal jelly, ostracod, etc.
The approximate amount of water in the ocean in cubic kilometers (closest guess wins)
1,335,000,000 cubic kilometers