Web Quest
Name __________________
Date___________________
Use this website http://www.coexploration.org/oe/kws/start.html to answer the question listed below.
Have Fun Exploring!
1.) Female Angular Fish catches its prey by a lure that is attached to her head. This lure lights up due to
___________ inside of it. Other fish are attracted to this light which allows the Angular fish to sit and
wait for its prey to come to her to eat. The process where living things can create their own light is
called ____________.
2.) ______________ are individual animals that make up corals. Corals eat by their _________ that
capture their prey by stinging it, similar to a jelly fish. Also serves as a defense mechanism.
3.) Some corals have algae on them which allows the coral to get food from the algae and the algae a
place to grow and live. This relationship is an example of ______________.
4.) Bleaching of corals is caused __________________________________________________.
5.) Corals provide ____________, _______________, ____________.
6.) ________________ caused by cracks in the Earth's crust. In these cracks lies hot lava; similar to a
volcano. When the cold seawater gets into these cracks of super hot lava, mineral rich water shoots up
from the cracks in the ocean floor into the cold seawater.
7.) _______________ is the process by which certain microbes create energy by mediating chemical
reactions. So the animals that live around hydrothermal vents make their living from the chemicals
coming out of the seafloor in the vent fluids! Because they are a local food source, hydrothermal vents
typically have high biomass.
8.) Due to the effects of global warming ________________ is decreasing. If this continues than many
living plants and animals like the polar bear may become extinct.
9.) Whales are _______________ like us, they breathe air into their lungs, feed their young milk, and
are warm-bloodied.
10.) What are the three ways that an octopus can defend itself?
1______________________________________
2______________________________________
3______________________________________
11.) Sharks use an organ on the side of its body called a ________________. This helps sharks sense
what is near it in the water or where it is in the currents.
12.) Oceans provide _______________,_________________, _____________, and ________________.
13.) In Deep ocean environments some animals can use bioluminescence to _____________,
____________, ___________, _____________. Caused by a chemical reaction that they control within
their bodies or caused by bacteria that live on their bodies that can do this.
14.) No longer active underwater volcanoes called ________________ are home to many animal and
corals.
15.) What have scientist used to better explore the oceans?
_______________________________________________
Extra Credit
Include here the topic of your choice you explored and the Depth shown of your submarine.
Anglerfish
250m