Ocean ecosystems, marine organisms, and marine biology facts.
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- Deepest ocean trench on Earth
- Mariana Trench
- What forms a coral reef
- Partnership of coral animals and symbiotic zooxanthellae algae
- Photosynthetic algae living inside coral
- Zooxanthellae
- Fastest fish in the ocean
- Sailfish
- Percentage of atmospheric oxygen from ocean sources
- Approximately 50%
- Light production and emission by organisms
- Bioluminescence
- Ocean layer where sunlight penetrates
- Photic zone
- Ocean layer receiving no sunlight
- Aphotic zone
- Dense underwater forest of giant kelp
- Kelp forest
- Mesopelagic zone is also called the
- Twilight zone
- Largest whale species
- Blue whale
- Primary food for baleen whales
- Krill and plankton
- Crab that lives in abandoned shells
- Hermit crab
- Largest fish species alive
- Whale shark
- Navigation using emitted sound waves
- Echolocation