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Question 1

Salinity

Answer 1

The salt content of a liquid

Sea water salinity is about 3.5%

Question 2

Saltmarch

Answer 2

Community of plants rooted in soils that are alternately flooded and drained by tides

Question 3

Scales

Answer 3

Thin, overlapping flat plates that form a protective outer covering on fishes, reptiles and the legs of birds

Question 4

Scavenger

Answer 4

An animal that eats dead plants or animals

Question 5

Schooling

Answer 5

Several to hundreds of fishes swimming together in a very coordinated manner

Question 6

Scrimshaw

Answer 6

Decorative carving of walrus tusks and whales teeth and bones

Question 7

Sessile

Answer 7

Stationary, attached to the substrate

Question 8

Sexual dimorphism

Answer 8

A distinct difference in appearance between males and females of the same species

Question 9

Skate

Answer 9

An egg laying fish with a cartilaginous skeleton, broad flat body and pointed snout

Question 10

Slough

Answer 10

A marshland or tidal waterway

Question 11

Sounding

Answer 11

A whales long, deep dive, usually taken after a series of shallow surface dives

Question 12

Species

Answer 12

Plants or animals that are similar to each other and breed only with one another

Question 13

Spiracle

Answer 13

A small gill opening, just behind the eye, in some sharks and all skates and rays

Question 14

Spout

Answer 14

A whales blow, or exhaled breath at the surface of the water

Question 15

Spring tides

Answer 15

Tides during the new and full moon when the sun, moon and earth are all in line. There is the most difference between high and low tides

Question 16

Spyhopping

Answer 16

The whales act of raising its head vertically above the water, possibly to look around or navigate by coastline

Question 17

Stipe

Answer 17

The stem like part of a kelp plant connecting the holdfast to the blades

Question 18

Submarine canyon

Answer 18

A long narrow steep walled undersea valley

Question 19

Submersible

Answer 19

A submarine vehicle used in oceanographic studies

Question 20

Substrate

Answer 20

A surface, the material on which organisms live on and in. Like rock, sand, mud, pilings and shells etc.

Question 21

Subtidal

Answer 21

Below the intertidal or below the level of the lowest tide

Question 22

Surfline

Answer 22

The are near the shore where the waves break

Question 23

Suspension feeder

Answer 23

An animal that filters out detritus or other particles suspended in the water

Question 24

Swimbladder

Answer 24

a gas or oil filled sac found in many fishes that helps provide buoyancy