Ocean Zones
This ocean zone is closest to the surface and is home to nearly 90% of the ocean's plant and animal life.
Sunlight Zone
This sea creature spends its days in the ocean and comes ashore at night to lay and bury eggs before moving back to the safety of the sea.
Sea turtles
This ocean movie features a clown fish who sets out in the ocean to find his son.
Finding Nemo
This plant can be found on our beaches. There are over 12,000 species and can be a salty snack or used to make sushi.
Seaweed
Coral can produce its own sunscreen.
The algea that lives within coral is easily damaged by sun rays. To combat this, the coral polyps produce pigments that block the sunlight.
This ocean zone is home to animals that love the cold water including some sharks and lobsters.
Twilight Zone
Whales, seals, and even polar bears have this adaptation to help them stay warm in cold air and ocean tempratures.
Blubber
This sea-creature can be found in our oceans deepest trenches and in tide pools. They are known for being able to re-grow arms, and for being Spongebob's best friend.
Starfish
This plant isn't just found in the sea; found on the tops of ponds and lakes, it plays an important part in the ecosystem.
Algae
Plankton makes up most of the world's oxygen.
True!
Plankton take in carbon dioxide and sunlight to make their own food. This creates oxygen. 70% of Earth's oxygen is made this way.
The Midnight Zone is nearly 2.5 miles deep and is pretty dark, with its only source of light being this.
Animals.
Sharks shoudn't be able to float, but are bouyant thanks to this part of their body.
Oil-filled liver
Ursula the sea witch's friends are what kind of animal?
Plankton
(Phytoplankton are plans, using sunlight to create their own food).
Octopuses have 8 hearts.
False!
Octopuses have 3. One keeps blood supply flowing to various organs and there are 2 more that are responsible for pumping blood to its gills.
This is the deepest part of the ocean. With tempratures barely above freezing, it is too cold, and too deep for humans.
Trench Zone
Jellyfish aren't really fish, they're a type of animal that has no bones.
Invertabrea
King Triton
This is a form of leafy algea and needs sunlight to grow. Found in shallower waters, it often looks like large lettuce leaves.
Kelp.
The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world.
True!
The Pacific Ocean is west of us, if you visit Hawaii, California or Oregan, you can dip your feet in!
This midnight zone inhabitant is most known for having a light above its head and for its role in Finding Nemo.
Angler Fish
This sea creature is often mistaken for a plant, and is home to thousands upon thousands of sea-plant and animal life.
Coral
If Moana were traveling from Hawaii to California, what ocean would she cross?
The Pacific Ocean.
This sea plant has stinging tentacles and is can be home to clownfish, like Nemo.
Sea Anemone
Elephant seals are the biggest animals on planet Earth.
False!
Blue whales are the larget animals on Earth! Weighing in at 200 tons (400,000 pounds) they're bigger than the largest dinosaur ever was.