Bodies of Water
Flying over Utah, you might get a glimpse of this body of water.
What is the Great Salt Lake
Dory, from Finding Nemo, is this species of fish.
What is Pacific Blue Tang
It's what the archerfish shoots to bring down insects.
What is water
Sometimes used synonymously with "non-native", this term describes a species that has colonized a new biogeographical area.
What is invasive
John Denver sings about this river in "Take Me Home, Country Roads".
What is the Shenandoah River
This current keeps San Francisco cool even in summer.
What is the California Current
This species of shark can live to be 500 years old.
What is the Greenland shark
Many divers breathe a helium-oxygen mix, as under pressure, this element that makes up nearly 80% of air induces a dangerous euphoria.
What is Nitrogen
These forests can store up to five times more carbon per hectare than tropical rainforests.
What are Mangroves.
"Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea", says a No. 1 hit by this group with a different animal in its name.
What is Three Dog Night
From an old Norse word, it's a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea.
What is a Fjord
A deep sea octopus with large head fins that look like ears is named for this Disney movie character.
What is Dumbo.
Gabbro, diorite & rhyolite are part of this rock family, one of the big 3.
What is Igneous
Leaves of this aquatic plant may be 6 feet across & supposedly can support a small child.
What is a Water Lily
Snakes didn't get Samuel L. Jackson in the movie "Deep Blue Sea"-- but this creature did.
What is Mako Shark
This river is the deepest in the world, reaching 720 feet in depth.
What is the Congo River
These deep-sea vents, named for the magma-heated water they emit, are islands of life in the ocean floor.
What is hydrothermal vents
This is a measure of certain minerals in the water; for the deep waters of the Dead Sea, it's about 332 parts per thousand.
What is salinity
Galápagos penguins lie in wait for this water bird to gather up food before stealing fish from their beaks.
What is a Pelican
This 1968 hit song begins, "In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed the sea".
What is Yellow Submarine
At the beach, beware of riptides, rip currents & this, which despite its name won't drag you offshore into deep water
What is undertows
Making up the order Actiniaria, these sea organisms are not delicate despite their flower name--some live 30,000 feet deep.
What are Sea Anemones
Plate tectonics studies the dynamics of the Earth's shell, this solid rocky sphere from the Greek for "stone ball".
What is the lithosphere
Home to groves of black gum, juniper & water ash, the Great Dismal Swamp straddles Virginia & this state.
What is North Carolina
The title of this Jules Verne tale refers to the distance traveled, not to how deep the characters go.
What is Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea