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Question 1

Camouflage

Answer 1

A behavior, shape, colour/pattern that helps a plant or animal blend in with its surroundings

Question 2

Canopy

Answer 2

The top layer of the kelp forest where fronds float on the sea surface and shade the forest floor

Question 3

Carnivore

Answer 3

An animal that eats the flesh of other animals

Question 4

Cartilage

Answer 4

The tough, flexible tissue that forms the skeletons of some animals like sharks, skates and rays

Question 5

Caudal fin

Answer 5

A fish’s tail fin

Question 6

Cetacean

Answer 6

Any member of the group (order of cetacea) of marine mammals which includes whales, dolphins and porpoises

Question 7

Chemoreception

Answer 7

The ability to sense chemicals in the environment

Question 8

Claspers

Answer 8

Sex organs of male shards, skates and rays, used to pass sperm to the female

Question 9

Community

Answer 9

All of the plants and animals living in a specific area, often described by the most abundant or obvious organism

Question 10

Competition

Answer 10

Interactions between plants or animals in which one adversely affects another for some limited resource (space,food, mates)

Question 11

Conservation

Answer 11

The practice of protecting nature from loss or damage

Question 12

Consumer

Answer 12

An animal that feeds on other plants and animals

Question 13

Continental shelf

Answer 13

The submerged shelf of land that slopes gradually from the exposed edge of a continent to where the steep drop off to the deep sea bottom begins

Question 14

Counter current heat exchange

Answer 14

An adaptation that helps maintain a whales core body temperature, cooler blood flowing back to the whales heart recaptures heat from warm blood flowing away from the heart

Question 15

Counter shading

Answer 15

A type of protective coloration in which an animal is light on the underside and dark on top

Question 16

Crustacean

Answer 16

Any member of a taxonomic group of animals which includes crabs, beach hoppers, pill bugs and shrimps