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What causes waves?

Plankton are microscopic plants and animals that are important to the food chain.

The Magic School Bus-On the Ocean Floor

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1
Plankton are microscopic plants and animals that are important to the food chain.
False
True
2
What causes waves?
moon
wind
sun
season
3
Where does sand come from?
Parrotfish poop out sand
From not washing your hair and swimming
From tiny pieces of rocks or shells
4
What is the continental shelf?
All of the above
Where water is four hundred to six hundred feet deep
The land that slants down and is covered by ocean water
The place around the world's continents
5
Which one of these animals is a mammal?
crab
jellyfish
whale
coral
6
Coral is white, so why does it look colorful.
The light from the sun makes it look colorful.
The light that from sea creatures make it look colorful.
Someone colored them with a crayon.
Colorful algae lives inside the coral polyps
7
When the water near shore rises and gets deep, it is high tide.
True
False
8
What causes tides?
The place where the sea creatures are swimming.
The pull of the moon's gravity on earth and its oceans.
The sun.
9
What makes a fish a true fish?
gills
fins
backbone
all of the above
10
Why is the ocean salty?
People have put a lot of salt into the ocean.
Fish poop is salty and makes the water salty.
Salt from rocks go into the water when they are worn down.
11
An island is the top of an underwater mountain.
True
False