Sea Animals
The home/shelter for a snail
What is a shell?
The largest animal in the oceans (and world!)
What is a blue whale?
This is what a paper clip would do when it is dropped in a cup of water by itself
The name for a group of animals that eat both animals and plants
What is an omnivore?
The kind of fish that Nemo is
What is a clownfish?
The ocean that Dr. Asha de Vos studies whales in
What is the Indian Ocean?
Define neutral buoyancy
When an object neither floats nor sinks in water
Describe the direction of the arrows on a food web (from what to what?)
What is "from the prey to predator" / "from energy producer to consumer" ?
Name three examples of producers/autotrophs in a marine ecosystem
[answers vary - seaweed, phytoplankton, algae, etc]
The three types of aquatic ecosystems
What are marine, freshwater, and wetlands/swamps?
These are the two categories of environmental factors
What are abiotic and biotic?
The two types of plankton (either scientific names or describe the differences)
What are zooplankton and phytoplankton?
The number of oceans on the planet
What is 5?
This is the name of a vessel that utilizes the principles of buoyancy to study things in our oceans
What is a submarine?
The side of a food web/chain that has the least amount of energy available
What is the top?