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Macrocystis

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The scientific name for a giant kelp

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Mammal

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A warm blooded animal with hair that breathes in air and has internal fertilization. It nurses live borne young

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Marine

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Of the sea

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Marine snow

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Organic particles that fall into the deep sea from the sunlit surface layers

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Melon

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A dolphins or toothed whales protruding, fat filled forehead that is used like a lenses to focus sounds

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Mesopelagic

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The twilight midwater zone (600 - 3300ft / 200 - 1000m deep) between the upper sunlit zone and the dark ocean depths

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Mid water

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The region between the ocean surface and the bottom

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Migration

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An animals travels from one region to another that occur on a natural cycle

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Minus tide

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A low tide below the average lower low (zero) tide level

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Mysticete

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A baleen whale having baleen mouth parts and two blowholes (gray whales and blue whales)

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