Primeval
Tongue twister that was reportedly written about Mary Anning after she found fossils on the beach in England
"She sells seashells by the seashore."
Method of reproduction in fishes and some other animals where a large number of eggs are fertilized outside of the body
Spawning
The small and microscopic organisms drifting or floating in the sea or fresh water, and the eggs and larval stages of larger animals.
Plankton
During a new moon or a full moon, the tide is higher than usual and the low tide is lower than usual
Spring Tides
Organisms that can swim freely and are generally independent of currents.
Nektonic
One of the two fossilized sea creatures that Mary Anning discovered on the beach
Ichthyosaurus (first time)
Plesiosaurs (second time)
Shape of flat bodied fish with one eye on each side (ex. angelfish, surgeonfish, and butterfly fish)
Compressed shape
Latin word for "water"
Aqua
The top layer of the ocean, nearest the surfaces. Here there is enough light to penetrate the water to support photosynthesis.
Sunlit Zone
Animals that don't swim but scurry, crawl, hop, scoot, burrow, or slither across the bottom of a body of water.
Benthic
These fossilized giant marine reptiles resemble sea snakes
Mosasaurs
Greek word for fish; an image of a fish used as a symbol for Christianity
Ichthus
A circular course of motion
Gyre
The lowest level of the ocean to which light can penetrate, with very little light
Twilight Zone
Organisms fixed in one place; immobile
Sessile
In the video clip from Jurassic World that was attached to your Lesson 5 update on Schoology, what type of animal did the Mosasaurus leap out of the water to eat?
Pterodactyl
The body is light on the bottom and darker on the top
Counter-shading
Part of a continent that slopes gradually downward and the water gets deeper and deeper
Continental shelf
The bottom layer of the ocean, darkest and deepest
Midnight Zone
Greek word for "wander or drift"
Planktos
What we call a fossil that is found with the bones present in their proper places, almost as if they were still all attached to each other
Articulated fossil
Three main kinds of fishes
1. Bony
2. Cartilaginous
3. Jawless
Currents formed as a result of both the temperature of water AND the amount of salt in it
Thermohaline currents
When high tides are lower and low tides are higher
Neap Tides
Greek word that means "swimming"
Nekton