OCEAN Flashcards

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A-NE-MO-NES

əˈnemənē

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A soft, brightly coloured sea creature that looks like a flower and often lives on rocks in the ocean

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CLOWNFISH

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Clownfish can change their sex, that’s why in Finding Nemo, after Marlin died, Nemo becomes the mom

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SAILFISH

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Fastest creature in the ocean
Fish with a pointy sword

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FASTEST OCEANIC CREATURE

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Tend to be warm-blooded** (endothermic)**

Ex: Tuna, Sailfish

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CONCH SHELL

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Conch shells typically have a high spire and a noticeable siphonal canal

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EXOSKELETONS

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Seashells
Skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal to both support the body shape and protect the internal organs

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CONE SNAILS

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We usually see their shells on the shore
Extremely venomous snails that we don’t have antidote for their venom

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HARPOON

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Like a spear to aim at fish or ground to anchor

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STARFISH

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Starfish is assumably voracious
They find food by numerous detection sensors along their arms
Once they find food, they eject their stomach to digest the prey

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MANTIS SHRIMP

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Able to perceive more colors than we do due to more photoreceptors in their eyes.

Able to punch & club so fast that tear water molecules apart. When these molecules rush into emerge, boils the temperatures to the high rate. In these boiling bubbles of water, the heat can reach the temperatures of the surface of the Sun.

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ANGLERFISH

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Fish with a lamp on their head to allure prey
The lure is bioluminiscent

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HOW OCTOPUS CHANGE THEIR COLORS?

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After perceiving background color, the info of this is processed in the way that chromatophores living underneath their skin change their color rapidly.

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FISH AGE

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Fish has some coin-shaped bones in the back of their skull called OTOLITHS. These bones has concentric rings that can be counted to guess the age just like tree

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PECTORAL FINS

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on the side
hovering behaviors/investigation

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DORSAL FINS

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Front dorsal fin acts as weapon, containing venoms
Others are skin connection to fin rays

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CAUDAL FINS

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tail fins - generate thrust to navigate

17
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CORAL BLEACH

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When corals are stressed bc of the high temperatures in the ocean, they release algae from inside their tissues -> can’t be fed and starve

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GOBLIN SHARK

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shark with long nose

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ARCTIC OCEAN

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smallest & shallowest sea
near Arctic region

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NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

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a part of Atlantic Ocean north of equator

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SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

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a part of Atlantic Ocean south of equator

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NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN

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Pacific Ocean - north of equator

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SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

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Pacific Ocean - south of equator

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INDIAN OCEAN

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Bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west, and Australia to the east

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SOUTHERN OCEAN

Antartic Ocean

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Ocean that encircles Antarctica and extends northward to 60 degrees south latitude

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NAUTICAL

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relating to ship, sailing and sailors

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CRUSTACEANS

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soft body, hard shell creatures live by the ocean