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The walrus lives near what Pole?

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The North Pole

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Pinniped

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Wing footed

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Are whales warm-blooded or cold-blooded animals?

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Warm-blooded

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The largest of all pinnipeds

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The elephant seal

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The layer of fat sea mammals have that keeps them warm

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Blubber

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Seals that have no outer ears

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True seals

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Seals that have small outer ears

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Eared seals

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This sea animal is clever enough to use tools to break open mollusks

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Sea otter

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The pinniped that has a set of tusks which he uses as a fifth leg

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The walrus

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Are baby whales hatched or born underwater?

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Born

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The largest of all flying birds

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The wandering albatross

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Most penguins live near this continent

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Antarctica

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The tallest of all penguins

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The Emperor penguin

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The most poisonous fish

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The stonefish

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A fish that helps larger fish by eating parasites

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Wrasse

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A fish that looks like a snake

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Moray eel

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A fish whose teeth are fused together to form a beak so that it can bite through a fishhook or nibble coral

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Parrotfish

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A fish that mimics the Wrasse but will bite large fish

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Blenny

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The great barrier reef is off the coast of what content?

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Australia

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19
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Coral reefs are made of

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Polyp skeletons

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See stars or starfish have what kind of feet?

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Tube feet

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Name the three steps in the water cycle

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Precipitation, evaporation, condensation

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Examples of mollusks

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Cowrie, conch, sea snail, oyster, clam, mussel

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Examples of crustaceans

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Shrimp, lobster, crab

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A fish that swims upright

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Seahorse

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Tides that occur when the sun and moon are at right angles to the earth and pull in different directions

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Neap tides

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The tide that occurs when the water has reached its lowest point before rising again

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Low tide

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The tide that occurs when the water has reached its highest point before it starts falling again

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High tide

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The tide that experiences the highest high tides and the lowest low tides

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Spring tide

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The area between low tide and high tide lines were most ocean plants and animals live

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Intertidal region

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All living creatures have to have some of this in their body tissues

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Water

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The smallest part of a substance that still has the quality of that substance is a

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Molecule

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The ocean covers almost how much of the earth’s surface?

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Three fourths

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Underground places where water collects

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Aquifers

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Single shell

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Univalve

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Two shells

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Bivalve

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A small crustacean that is a scavenger

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Shrimp

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This produces pearls

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Oyster

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A carnivorous crustacean with two large pincers

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Lobster

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A crustacean that runs sideways

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Crab

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Why is water vapor in the air not as salty as ocean water?

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When water evaporates from the ocean most of the minerals dissolved in the water remain behind

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How does the ocean moderate the climate of earth?

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The temperature of the ocean does not change as quickly as that on land. Therefore, the ocean warms the land in the winter and cools it in the summer.

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Which Penguin incubates the penguin egg?

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The father

43
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The parent penguin stores food for its baby in this

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It’s crop

44
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How long do penguins walk from the edge of the ice to their rookery?

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30 to 40 miles

45
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Small fluffy feathers beneath the long outer feathers that keep penguins warm even an icy weather

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Down

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The science that studies the complex relationships between living things and their surroundings

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Ecology

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During an oil spill the thick layer of oil that forms

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An oil slick

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This breaks oil into small drops that can be washed away from shore in the event of an oil spill

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Detergent

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Scientists who study the sea

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Oceanographers

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Birds and seabirds belong to the group of animals with backbones called

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Vertebrates

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This sea animal floats on its back to carry its baby and to eat food

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Sea otter

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This pinniped has a flap of skin that dangles from it snout that looks a little like a trunk

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The elephant seal

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This pinniped male can be 16 to 20 feet long and weigh 5000 to 8000 pounds

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Male elephant seal

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This pinniped weighs over 2000 pounds with a blunt forehead, wide snout, and long tusks

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Walrus

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When undisturbed this fishes spines lay flat against its body but when it feels threatened it puffs itself up with water so that it’s spines stick out making it difficult for a predator to swallow it

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The porcupine fish

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This fish is one of the most beautiful fish found in tropical waters. It has very strong poison that is effective even after it is dead.

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The lionfish

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This male fish has a pouch to carry eggs deposited by the female

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The sea horse

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There are more than 4600 kinds of this crustacean

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Crabs

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The growing process crustaceans go through during which they shed their shells

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Molting

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The valuable lining of the shells of clams, mussels, and oysters used to make buttons and jewelry

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Mother of pearl

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Two matching shells joined by hinges

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Bivalves

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Where kelp often grow

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The low intertidal zone

63
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An invertebrate and carnivorous snail that preys upon the colonies of mussels

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The whelk

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A sea animal that lives in the low intertidal zone that looks like around flower but is actually an animal. Its waving tentacles contain deadly cells that release venom that paralyze shellfish or small fish

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Sea anemone

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Red and purple prickly balls that graze on kelp

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Sea urchins

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This shell can be made into a musical instrument

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Conch shell

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These live in the high intertidal zone

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Barnacles

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This algae plant lives in the middle intertidal zone

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Seaweed

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These look like berries and help some larger algae to float

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Air bladders

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On algae, these take the place of roots and anchor the plants to the ocean bottom

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Holdfasts

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Invertebrate animals that cement themselves to rocks and grow a very hard shell

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Barnacles

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Any form of water rain, sleet, hail, or snow that comes down from the clouds

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Precipitation

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Water vapor changing back to a liquid

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Water condensation

74
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The transforming of liquid water into water vapor

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Evaporation

75
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A water molecule has this structure

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Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom

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The smallest part of a substance that still has the qualities of that substance

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A molecule

77
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Mountainous waves caused by earthquakes that destroy all that lies in their path

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Tsunamis

78
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Tiny floating plants and animals in the ocean that are food for ocean life

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Plankton

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