Ocean Mammals
This is the largest pinniped.
What is an elephant seal?
There are at least 85 species of this ocean bird.
What is a gull?
Algea lives in this zone of the tides.
What is the middle intertidal zone?
This category of mollusk only has one shell and one opening.
What is a univalve?
The moon pulls on the water using gravity creating high and low times of this.
This mammal does not spend any of its time on the land.
What is a whale?
This is where a penguin stores food for its young.
What is a crop?
This is what makes coral reefs.
What are Coral polyps?
This carnivorous snail preys on colonies of mussels.
What is a whelk?
Without this, nothing could live, because all living things need it for their body tissue.
What is water?
This category of mammal is known as "wing-footed"
What is a pinniped?
This is the largest of all flying birds.
What is a wandering albatross?
This flower-looking creature lives in the low intertidal zone.
What is a sea anemone?
These are ocean invertebrates that need shells for protection.
What are mollusks?
Water is made up of a molecule with two of these atoms.
What is Hydrogen?
This type of seal has no visible ears.
What is a true seal?
These small soft feathers provide additional warmth to ocean birds.
What is down?
These tiny floating plants are eaten by barnacles and other small sea creatures.
What are plankton?
An arm of a Seastar is called this and can regenerate.
What is a ray?
These are underground places where water collects.
This playful mammal sleeps on its back in the ocean.
What is a sea otter?
This flightless bird stands 4-feet tall.
What is an emperor penguin?
This is the largest coral reef.
What is the Great Barrier Reef.
Crustaceans will do this to change their shells.
What is molt?
These three parts of the water cycles ensure that the ocean gives life back to the land.
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?