All about the ocean
Part of land under shallow water
What is he continental shelf?
Breeding grounds
What is a rookery?
The largest of the sea turtle species
What is a leatherback turtle?
Unique part of a sea snakes anatomy
What is a paddle-shaped tail?
Cetaceans belong to this class of animals
What is Mammalia?
Animals that can swim against the current
What is nektonic?
Ear flaps and long flippers
What is a sea lion?
The smallest of the sea turtles
What is a Ridley turtle?
Has highly poisonous venom
What is a sea snake?
A whale swimming slowing at the surface with little movement
What is logging?
Animals that do not swim but crawl, hop, slither
What is benthic?
Swim with their flippers close to their bodies, reducing drag
What is a seal?
The covering of the shell made of keratin
What are scutes?
Newly hatched amphibians
What are tadpoles?
The organ used for echolocation
What is the melon?
Animals that attach to the ocean bottom and do not change location
What is sessile?
Turn pink as their bodies warm due to excess blood flow at the skin.
What is a walrus?
The rib and backbone are attached to this part of the shell
What is the carapace?
Almost perfectly flat and looks like a dead leaf
What is the pipa pipa or aquatic toad?
Porpoising
When dolphins race along near the surface of the water making small leaps out?
The oceans of the world
What is Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern?
Prefer to eat benthic creatures
What are walruses?
Raccoons, foxes, coyotes and ants are predators and destroy these
What are sea turtle eggs?
Secretive creatures of the night that are among the least studied animals
What are salamanders?
Reason belugas travel to extremely shallow waters every year
What is to molt?