{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/ocean-life",
 "id": "ocean-life",
 "title": "Ocean Animals",
 "category": "science",
 "subject": "Marine Biology",
 "levels": [
  "k-2",
  "3-5",
  "6-8"
 ],
 "description": "Sea creatures and facts about life in the ocean.",
 "tags": [
  "ocean",
  "marine",
  "sea animals"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Animal / question",
 "backLabel": "Answer",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Blue whale",
   "The largest animal ever known; eats tiny krill"
  ],
  [
   "Humpback whale",
   "A whale famous for songs and breaching"
  ],
  [
   "Orca (killer whale)",
   "A large black and white dolphin that hunts in pods"
  ],
  [
   "Sperm whale",
   "The largest toothed whale; dives very deep"
  ],
  [
   "Beluga whale",
   "A small white whale of Arctic waters"
  ],
  [
   "Narwhal",
   "A whale with a long spiral tusk"
  ],
  [
   "Dolphin",
   "A smart, social marine mammal that uses echolocation"
  ],
  [
   "Porpoise",
   "A small relative of dolphins with a blunt snout"
  ],
  [
   "Manatee",
   "A gentle, slow marine mammal that eats plants"
  ],
  [
   "Sea otter",
   "A mammal that floats on its back and uses tools to crack shells"
  ],
  [
   "Walrus",
   "A large Arctic mammal with tusks"
  ],
  [
   "Seal",
   "A marine mammal with flippers and no external ear flaps in true seals"
  ],
  [
   "Sea lion",
   "A marine mammal with ear flaps and large front flippers"
  ],
  [
   "Polar bear",
   "An Arctic marine mammal that hunts on sea ice"
  ],
  [
   "Great white shark",
   "A large predator shark"
  ],
  [
   "Whale shark",
   "The largest fish; eats plankton"
  ],
  [
   "Hammerhead shark",
   "A shark with a wide, flat head"
  ],
  [
   "Manta ray",
   "A giant, wing-like filter feeder"
  ],
  [
   "Stingray",
   "A flat fish with a stinging barb on its tail"
  ],
  [
   "Clownfish",
   "An orange and white fish that lives among anemones"
  ],
  [
   "Seahorse",
   "A fish where the male carries the babies"
  ],
  [
   "Pufferfish",
   "A fish that swells with water when threatened"
  ],
  [
   "Swordfish",
   "A fast fish with a long flat bill"
  ],
  [
   "Tuna",
   "A fast, strong fish important for food"
  ],
  [
   "Salmon",
   "A fish that swims from the sea up rivers to spawn"
  ],
  [
   "Eel",
   "A long, snake-like fish"
  ],
  [
   "Anglerfish",
   "A deep-sea fish with a glowing lure"
  ],
  [
   "Flying fish",
   "A fish that glides above the water"
  ],
  [
   "Jellyfish",
   "A soft sea animal with stinging tentacles, no brain or heart"
  ],
  [
   "Octopus",
   "A smart mollusk with eight arms"
  ],
  [
   "Squid",
   "A mollusk with eight arms and two long tentacles"
  ],
  [
   "Giant squid",
   "A deep-sea squid with the largest eyes in the animal world"
  ],
  [
   "Cuttlefish",
   "A relative of squid that changes color quickly"
  ],
  [
   "Nautilus",
   "A shelled cephalopod with a spiral shell"
  ],
  [
   "Starfish (sea star)",
   "A spiny-skinned animal with arms"
  ],
  [
   "Sea urchin",
   "A spiny round animal"
  ],
  [
   "Sea cucumber",
   "A soft, sausage-shaped animal on the seafloor"
  ],
  [
   "Crab",
   "A crustacean with claws and a hard shell"
  ],
  [
   "Lobster",
   "A large crustacean with big claws"
  ],
  [
   "Shrimp",
   "A small crustacean with a curved body"
  ],
  [
   "Krill",
   "Tiny shrimp-like animals eaten by whales"
  ],
  [
   "Barnacle",
   "A crustacean that sticks to rocks and boats"
  ],
  [
   "Hermit crab",
   "A crab that lives inside a borrowed shell"
  ],
  [
   "Sea turtle",
   "A reptile that lives in the ocean and lays eggs on beaches"
  ],
  [
   "Sea snake",
   "A venomous snake adapted to the sea"
  ],
  [
   "Marine iguana",
   "A lizard that feeds on algae in the sea, found in the Galapagos"
  ],
  [
   "Penguin",
   "A flightless bird that swims"
  ],
  [
   "Albatross",
   "A seabird with a very long wingspan"
  ],
  [
   "Pelican",
   "A seabird with a throat pouch"
  ],
  [
   "Coral",
   "A tiny animal that builds a hard skeleton, forming reefs"
  ],
  [
   "Sponge",
   "A simple animal that filters water"
  ],
  [
   "Sea anemone",
   "A soft animal with stinging tentacles"
  ],
  [
   "Seaweed",
   "Algae that grows in the sea"
  ],
  [
   "Kelp",
   "A large brown seaweed that forms forests"
  ],
  [
   "Plankton",
   "Tiny living things that drift in the sea"
  ],
  [
   "Mollusk examples",
   "Clams, snails, oysters and octopuses"
  ],
  [
   "Great Barrier Reef",
   "The world's largest coral reef system, off Australia"
  ],
  [
   "Bioluminescence",
   "Light made by living things, as in jellyfish and anglerfish"
  ],
  [
   "Pod",
   "A group of whales or dolphins"
  ],
  [
   "School",
   "A group of fish"
  ],
  [
   "Baleen",
   "Plates in some whales' mouths that filter food"
  ],
  [
   "Blowhole",
   "The nostril on top of a whale's head"
  ],
  [
   "Echolocation",
   "Using sound echoes to find prey"
  ],
  [
   "Gills",
   "Organs fish use to get oxygen from water"
  ],
  [
   "Fins",
   "Body parts that help fish steer and balance"
  ],
  [
   "Ink",
   "A dark fluid octopuses squirt to hide"
  ],
  [
   "Tide pool",
   "A pocket of water left behind on a rocky shore at low tide"
  ],
  [
   "Intertidal zone",
   "The shore area between high and low tide"
  ],
  [
   "Deep sea",
   "The dark, cold part of the ocean far below the surface"
  ],
  [
   "Mariana Trench",
   "The deepest place in the ocean"
  ],
  [
   "Food chain in the sea",
   "Phytoplankton, zooplankton, small fish, larger fish and sharks or whales"
  ],
  [
   "Overfishing",
   "Catching fish faster than they can reproduce"
  ]
 ]
}