Question | Answer |
When you go to the beach, where is the best place to look for sea life? | Tide pools |
Where will you find jellyfish, white angler crabs, and gulper eels? | the abyssal plain |
The waters that are not salty like the ocean are called what? | fresh water |
What are the 4 oceans of the world? | Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic |
What is an estuary? | A place where a river meets with the ocean |
What are neap tides? | When the sun's gravity works against the moon's gravity and causes high tides to be lower and low tides to be higher |
How many days does it take the moon to travel around the earth? | more than 28 |
What happens during a full moon or a new moon? | high tides are higher, low tides are lower, these are spring tides. |
Circular patterns of the oceans currents are called? | gyres |
Why did God create plankton? | to feed many of the ocean animals |
What is the difference between vertebrates and invertebrates? | vertebrates have a backbone |
What did God do to clean up the oceans and rivers of the world? | created filter feeders |
sessile comes from the Latin word sessilis that means what? | sitting ie sponges are sessile |
Animals that scurry, hop, slither, or scoot are called... | benthic |
Name some nektonic animals. What does this word mean? | whales, seals, fish, sea snakes;
swimming |
A Latin word that means, water. | Aqua |
Name some animals that are not benthic but sit on the bottom of a lake or ocean. | flounder, stingrays |
What does planktos mean? | to drift or wander |
What are the 2 kinds of plankton? | phytoplankton, zooplankton |
Which of the 2 kinds of plankton use the sun to make their own food? | phytoplankton |
Warm-blooded | body temperature stays the same |
What causes tides? | the moon |
What is the beginning of a river called? | the head |