Deep Blue Sea

Multiple Choice

Which of the following characteristics best helps you identify a Red drum in the wild?

• It has a black spot at the base of its tail.

• It has bright blue fins.

• It lives only in deep water.

• It has stripes along its body.

Multiple Choice

Which adaptation helps the flounder survive in its environment?

• Camouflage and upward-facing eyes

• Sharp snout and nocturnal hunting

• Social hunting and keen senses

• Unique lung-like swim bladder

Multiple Choice

Tarpon use a unique ___ to breathe air, allowing them to survive in oxygen-poor waters.

• swim bladder
• Gills

• movement

• tail

Multiple Choice

Which of the following animals can survive in both freshwater and saltwater environments?

• Tarpon

• Flounder

• Atlantic Sharpnose Shark

• Bottlenose Dolphin

Multiple Choice

What are baby Dolphins called?

• Fish

• Calves

• Pup

• Dolphin

Multiple Choice

Which of the following animals lays eggs on a beach and spends years in ocean currents before migrating to coastal waters?

• Loggerhead Sea Turtle

• West Indian Manatee

• Blue Crab

• Shrimp

Multiple Select

Which of the following are key features of the Blue Crab's habitat?

• Estuaries

• Oyster Reefs

• Soft Bottoms

• Coral Reefs

Multiple Select

How do Shrimp survive?

• Hide

• Swim Fast

• swim to the surface

• camouflage

Multiple Choice

Which adaptation helps the Atlantic Horseshoe crab flip itself over if it gets turned upside down?

• Its tough shell

• Its versatile tail (telson)

• Its book gills

• Its claws

Multiple Choice

Which of the following animals uses tube feet for movement and feeding?

• Atlantic Horseshoe crab

• Sea Star

• Cannonball Jellyfish

• Oyster

Multiple Select

How do Sand Dollars move?

• tube feet

• water pushes them

• they don't move

• spine

Multiple Select

Select all the features that help oysters survive in their environment.

• Clamping their shells for protection

• Filter feeding

• Producing toxins

• Regeneration

Multiple Choice

The largest free-flowing river in Georgia is the ___ River.

• Altamaha
• Chattahoocee

• Savannah

• St. Mary's

Multiple Choice

Which river forms part of the Georgia-South Carolina border and flows into the Atlantic Ocean?

• Ogeechee River

• Altamaha River

• Savannah River

• Satilla River

Multiple Select

Select all features that are part of the continental margin as described in the images.

• Continental shelf

• Continental slope

• Blake Plateau

• Abyssal plain

Multiple Choice

What are the large bodies of water between Georgia's barrier islands and the mainland typically called?

• Sounds

• Bays

• Lakes

• Rivers