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Marine Life Zones
Marine Habitats
Fish
Sharks
Mystery!
100
This is the percentage of the earth that is covered in water.
What is 70%?
100
This grass is the predominant plant species in a salt marsh.
What is cord grass?
100
This is term used to describe how fish maintain proper water balance.
What is osmoregulation?
100
This is what a sharks skeleton is made of.
What is cartilage?
100
This word means that a fish's surroundings have more dissolved solutes (salts) than their bodies.
What is hypertonic?
200
This is the zone of the ocean that is called the splash zone and it is where you put your blanket down.
What is the supratidal zone?
200
This habitat is characterized by high biodiversity, warm waters, and high salinity.
What is a coral reef?
200
Fish that live in the benthos are typically this color.
What is red?
200
These are the electrical receptors on a sharks nose and a sharks "sixth" sense.
What are the Ampullae of Lorenzini?
200
A shark has this structure to keep it buoyant in the water.
What is a fatty liver?
300
This zone is the area of heaviest wave action.
What is the subtidal zone?
300
This habitat has been recently destroyed by the sea urchin.
What is the kelp forest?
300
These are skin cells containing pigments that expand and contract to change the color of a fish.
What is a chromatophore?
300
This structure enables both fish and sharks to feel vibrational changes in the water.
What is the lateral line?
300
A seahorse has this type of mouth for slurping zooplankton.
What is a specialized mouth?
400
In this zone, there is very little light and organisms use camouflage to blend in.
What is the benthic zone?
400
This habitat is found on the perimeters of many estuaries, typically in shallow water.
What is a sea grass bed?
400
This body form is the best for swimming quickly in the open ocean.
What is fusiform?
400
This is why the bull shark is the most dangerous shark. (2 reasons)
What is high levels of testosterone and can swim into fresh water?
400
This structure protects the gills of a fish, but is absent in sharks.
What is an operculum?
500
These two zones make up the pelagic zone.
What are the oceanic and neritic zones?
500
This habitat is structured in distinct zones of organisms.
What is the rocky intertidal?
500
This coloration on a fish is an indication that it is poisonous or dangerous.
What is vibrant coloration?
500
This structure gives a shark an excellent sense of smell.
What are the olfactory bulbs?
500
A freshwater fish __________ water and a saltwater fish _____________ water.
What is gains, loses?