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Marine Life
- BIRDS.
- FISHES.
- REPTILES.
- SEA LIONS.
- SEALS.
- SHARKS & RAYS.
- SQUID & OCTOPUSES.
- WHALES & DOLPHINS.
- How many species of marine life are there?
- What animals are in marine life?
- Are there undiscovered sea creatures?
- How deep is the Mariana Trench?
- What are the 3 types of marine life?
- Is Coral an animal?
- What animal spends most of all its life in the ocean?
- Is the Kraken real?
- What is the largest marine animal?
- What is the most powerful sea creature?
- Why is the ocean only 5 discovered?
- Could there be monsters deep in the ocean?
- What lies at the bottom of the ocean?
- Would you explode at the bottom of the ocean?
- Has a human been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
How many species of marine life are there?
There are 228,450 known species in the ocean — and as many as 2 million more that remain a total mystery.
What animals are in marine life?
Marine mammals are classified into four different taxonomic groups: cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses), sirenians (manatees and dugongs), and marine fissipeds (polar bears and sea otters).
Are there undiscovered sea creatures?
Scientists estimate that 91 percent of ocean species have yet to be classified, and that more than eighty percent of our ocean is unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored..
How deep is the Mariana Trench?
It is 11,034 meters (36,201 feet) deep, which is almost 7 miles. Tell students that if you placed Mount Everest at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the peak would still be 2,133 meters (7,000 feet) below sea level. Show students NOAA's Mariana Trench animation.
What are the 3 types of marine life?
Three main groups of ocean life are plankton, nekton, and benthos.
Is Coral an animal?
Corals are animals, though, because they do not make their own food, as plants do. ... Most structures that we call "coral" are, in fact, made up of hundreds to thousands of tiny coral creatures called polyps.
What animal spends most of all its life in the ocean?
Sea turtles have been roaming our oceans for more than 100 million years, and for all 100 million years, they've been doing it alone. Sea turtles spend almost their entire lives at sea, with females only returning to the beaches where they were born to nest.
Is the Kraken real?
Although fictional and the subject of myth, the legend of the Kraken continues to the present day, with numerous references in film, literature, television, and other popular culture topics.
What is the largest marine animal?
The Antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus ssp. Intermedia) is the biggest animal on the planet, weighing up to 400,000 pounds (approximately 33 elephants) and reaching up to 98 feet in length.
What is the most powerful sea creature?
- The Blue Whale is one of the largest, and "strongest" vertebrate animals of all time.
Why is the ocean only 5 discovered?
With space exploration, scientists can see everything that's in front of them, using telescopes. With ocean exploration, we're can't see very far. Light doesn't permeate deep into open water. ... In short, we've only explored 5 percent of the oceans, because exploring the depths is so treacherous and difficult.
Could there be monsters deep in the ocean?
Recent expeditions have found myriad creatures living out their lives at the bottom of the sea-floor. ... Perhaps the most impressive, among all the life in Challenger Deep, are the xenophyophores. These microbes are single-celled, but their widths are measured in inches.
What lies at the bottom of the ocean?
In the Pacific Ocean, somewhere between Guam and the Philippines, lies the Marianas Trench, also known as the Mariana Trench. At 35,814 feet below sea level, its bottom is called the Challenger Deep — the deepest point known on Earth.
Would you explode at the bottom of the ocean?
The pressure from the water would push in on the person's body, causing any space that's filled with air to collapse. (The air would be compressed.) So, the lungs would collapse.
Has a human been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
On 23 January 1960, two explorers, US navy lieutenant Don Walsh and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard, became the first people to dive 11km (seven miles) to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
