This is the part of the ocean partially enclosed by land.
What is a SEA?
Examples of THIS include Kingdom, Phylum, Order, Class, Family, Genus & Species.
What are the TAXONOMIC ranks/categories?
IT is the deepest place in the ocean, reaching 10,994 meters.
What is the MARIANA TRENCH?
THIS is an animal with a spine.
What is a VERTEBRATE?
Examples include the Arctic, Indian, Pacific, Atlantic & Southern
What are the world’s OCEANS?
Examples of THIS are Parasitism, Mutualism and Commensalism.
What are SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS?
THIS is a chemical reaction in a microbe or animal body that creates light without heat.
What is BIOLUMINESCENCE?
THIS is part of a fish that rests on the fish’s back and serves as a stabilizer.
What is a DORSAL FIN?
Trench, Crest and Trough are part of this.
What is a WAVE?
THIS is a tiny animal that, after multiplying, makes up a coral reef.
What is a CORAL POLYP?
THEY are limited to Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue & Indigo.
What are the COLORS of the VISIBLE LIGHT SPECTRUM?
Examples of THIS include Blue Whale, Sea Lion, Narwhal & Beluga.
What are MARINE MAMMALS?
THIS is the apparent curvature of global winds, ocean currents, and everything else that moves freely across the Earth’s surface.
What is the CORIOLIS EFFECT?
Examples of this include Basal Plate, Nematocyst, Tentacle, Digestive Filament & Mouth.
What are PARTS of a CORAL POLYP?
Examples of THIS include Red Coloration, Giantism, Dwarfism & Transparency.
What are ADAPTATIONS of DEEP SEA ANIMALS?
THIS is an animal that eats plants and other animals in a food web.
What is a CONSUMER?
THESE includes Chloride, Magnesium, Sulfate, and Sodium.
What are minerals found in sea water
Examples include Clown Fish, Blacktip Reef Shark, Octopus, Anemone, Grouper & Scorpion Fish.
Who are the ANIMALS of CORAL REEFS?
THIS is the middle layer of the world’s oceans, which receives only faint, filtered sunlight during the daytime.
What is the Twilight Zone?
THESE are the paired respiratory organ of fishes and some amphibians, by which oxygen is extracted from water flowing over surfaces within or attached to the walls of the pharynx.
What are GILLS?