Facts About Animals In The Ocean
02 Every single ocean on Earth is a whale habitat.
Facts about animals in the ocean. I wanted the kids to learn a few things about how animals are adapted to life in the ocean. Understandably oceans are home for numerous aquatic animals. It is a home to more than 16000 species of.
Seeing as water makes up most of the planet this means that most of Earth exists in absolute darkness all the time. Ocean animals can include marine mammals birds fish cephalopods corals sharks and reptiles. For example I had them make a pile of all the animals that move through the water with fins.
Most bivalves are ocean animals but some live in freshwater habitats. In fact the oceans hold about 965 of all water on Earth. Water occupies more than 70 of the earths surface.
The largest ocean on Earth is the Pacific Ocean covering around 30 of the Earths surface. Less than five per cent of the planets oceans have been explored. We looked at how fish and sharks move their tail fins from side to side but whales move their tail fins up and down.
The study of animals and other elements of marine biology dates back to Aristotle who lived from 384 to 322 BC. Seabirds get their primary source of food from the ocean and are specially adapted to live and hunt near water. 04 The 2 main types of whales are toothed and baleen.
The the largest animal on our planet everlarger than the greatest dinosaurs the blue whale still lives in the ocean and its heart is the size of a Volkswagen. Many bivalves are hunted and eaten by humans. But its an incredible 94 per cent of the Earths living species that exist within the oceans.