E Flashcards
Echo sounder
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
Echolocation
Do you Safeco’s to navigate all locate prey, sonar used by toothed whales
Elasmobranch
A fish (like a shark, skate or ray) with skeleton of cartilage, toothlike scales and no air bladder
Electric organ
Cells in the pectoral fins (wings) of some rays and the tails of some skates that release pulses of electricity
Electroreception
The ability to sense an electric field, used by sharks, skates and rays to find nearby prey
Epipelagic
The upper sunlit ocean layers, to 350 feet deep off central California, also called the photic zone
Evolution
The process of gradual changes over long periods of time
Extinct
No longer exists