E Flashcards

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Echo sounder

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A machine that determines water depth by measuring the time it takes for sound waves to reach the bottom and echo back to the surface

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Echolocation

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Do you Safeco’s to navigate all locate prey, sonar used by toothed whales

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Elasmobranch

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A fish (like a shark, skate or ray) with skeleton of cartilage, toothlike scales and no air bladder

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Electric organ

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Cells in the pectoral fins (wings) of some rays and the tails of some skates that release pulses of electricity

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Electroreception

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The ability to sense an electric field, used by sharks, skates and rays to find nearby prey

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Epipelagic

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The upper sunlit ocean layers, to 350 feet deep off central California, also called the photic zone

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Evolution

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The process of gradual changes over long periods of time

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Extinct

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No longer exists

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