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aquifer
What is an
underground place
where water collects?
atom
What is the smallest part of
an element made of one or
more electrons flying about a
nucleus.
blubber
What is a thick layer of fat under
the skin of most sea mammals
that protects them from cold and
helps them float?
bivalve
What is a mollusk having
two matching shells
joined by hinges?
crustacean
What is an
invertebrate with a
crust-like shell
ecology
What is the science that studies
the complex relationships
between living things and their
surroundings?
intertidal zone
What is one of the various
regions between the low-tide and
high-tide lines where plants and
animals are clustered together?
molecule
What is the smallest part of a
substance that still has all the
qualities of that substance?
water
What molecule is formed by
the joining of two hydrogen
atoms and one oxygen atom?
mollusk
What is a soft-bodied
invertebrate often having a
protective outer shell or
exoskeleton?
pinniped
What is a marine
mammal with
flippers?
plankton
What are tiny plants and
animals that float in the upper
regions of the ocean?
pollution
What is uncleanness or
impurity caused by waste
materials or harmful
chemicals?
oceanographer
What is a scientist
who studies the sea?
rookery
What is a colony
of birds called?
mother-of-pearl
What is the name for the
beautiful lining of clam
and mussel shells called?
regenerate
What is the ability that some
ocean animals have to
regrow a body part?
tide
What is the systematic
rise and fall of ocean
water every six hours?
univalve
What is a mollusk
having a single shell?
sea urchin
Bristly red and purple
balls that graze on
kelp
walrus
A large pinniped
with tusks
algae
Water plants
such as seaweed
sea horse
A fish that
swims upright
elephant seal
The largest
pinniped
wandering
albatross
The largest
flying bird
sea otter
Uses tools to crack
open sea urchins
coral polyp
A small animal with
an outer covering
that forms reefs
sea star
An ocean creature with
rays that can
regenerate cut off parts
sea anemone
A colorful animal that
looks like a flower
stonefish
The most poisonous
fish in the world
blenny
The clener
mimic
barnacle
An invertebrate that
cements itself to rock
oyster
A bivalve that
forms pearls
parrotfish
Has teeth which are
fused to form a beak
mollusk
A small one- or
two-shelled
invertebrate
whelk
A snail that
eats mussels
high tide
A tide in which the ocean water moves
up the shore in areas where the moon
is directly over that part of the ocean
and in areas on the opposite side of
the earth.
low tide
A tide in which the ocean
water moves away the shore
in areas where the ocean is
at a right angle to the moon.
spring tide
Exceptionally high and low
tides caused by the
gravitational pull of the sun
when the sun
neap tide
A tide when high and low tides are at
about the same level because the sun
and moon are pulling at right angles to
the earth.
evaporation
What is the process
by which liquid water
becomes a gas?
condensation
What is the process
by which water vapor
becomes a liquid?
precipitation
What is the falling of
water back to earth
as rain