M Flashcards
Macrocystis
The scientific name for a giant kelp
Mammal
A warm blooded animal with hair that breathes in air and has internal fertilization. It nurses live borne young
Marine
Of the sea
Marine snow
Organic particles that fall into the deep sea from the sunlit surface layers
Melon
A dolphins or toothed whales protruding, fat filled forehead that is used like a lenses to focus sounds
Mesopelagic
The twilight midwater zone (600 - 3300ft / 200 - 1000m deep) between the upper sunlit zone and the dark ocean depths
Mid water
The region between the ocean surface and the bottom
Migration
An animals travels from one region to another that occur on a natural cycle
Minus tide
A low tide below the average lower low (zero) tide level
Mysticete
A baleen whale having baleen mouth parts and two blowholes (gray whales and blue whales)