Bill Nye Ocean Life

Plant plankton is called ________________________

Phytoplankton

______________________ are the smallest life in the ocean

Plankton

Zooplankton are tiny ________________________ plankton, such as crab larvae

animal

A whale's mouth has ________________________ that filters the plankton out of the water

baleen

Plankton don't swim, they ______________________ in the ocean currents.

drift

___________ grass is the first member of the ocean food web

eel

Sea grasses provide ____________________for sea life along the shoreline

food

The ocean has many / few ecosystems.

many

A coral reef is an underwater _______________________

oasis

There is more ____________________ than there is land

ocean

Phytoplankton is a major producer of __________________

oxygen

Phytoplankton take in sunlight and carbon dioxide and give off oxygen / water

oxygen

The ____________________ zone is the part of the ocean that gets the most sunlight

photic

Small fish eat smaller fish and big fish eat smaller / bigger fish.

smaller

All the organisms, large and small, in the ocean are part of a food ____________

web