OCEAN

Question 1

A-NE-MO-NES

əˈnemənē

Answer 1

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

Question 2

CLOWNFISH

Answer 2

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

Question 3

SAILFISH

Answer 3

Fastest creature in the ocean
Fish with a pointy sword

Question 4

FASTEST OCEANIC CREATURE

Answer 4

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

Ex: Tuna, Sailfish

Question 5

CONCH SHELL

Answer 5

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

Question 6

EXOSKELETONS

Answer 6

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

Question 7

CONE SNAILS

Answer 7

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

Question 8

HARPOON

Answer 8

Like a spear to aim at fish or ground to anchor

Question 9

STARFISH

Answer 9

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

Question 10

MANTIS SHRIMP

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

ANGLERFISH

Answer 11

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

Question 12

HOW OCTOPUS CHANGE THEIR COLORS?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

FISH AGE

Answer 13

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

Question 14

PECTORAL FINS

Answer 14

on the side
hovering behaviors/investigation

Question 15

DORSAL FINS

Answer 15

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

Question 16

CAUDAL FINS

Answer 16

tail fins - generate thrust to navigate

Question 17

CORAL BLEACH

Answer 17

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

Question 18

GOBLIN SHARK

Answer 18

shark with long nose

Question 19

ARCTIC OCEAN

Answer 19

smallest & shallowest sea
near Arctic region

Question 20

NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

Answer 20

a part of Atlantic Ocean north of equator

Question 21

SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

Answer 21

a part of Atlantic Ocean south of equator

Question 22

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN

Answer 22

Pacific Ocean - north of equator

Question 23

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

Answer 23

Pacific Ocean - south of equator

Question 24

INDIAN OCEAN

Answer 24

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

Question 25

SOUTHERN OCEAN

Antartic Ocean

Answer 25

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

Question 26

NAUTICAL

Answer 26

relating to ship, sailing and sailors

Question 27

CRUSTACEANS

Answer 27

soft body, hard shell creatures live by the ocean