1. The Sea
By Mrs Stokes
June 2005

2. The Sea What is the Sea? The sea is a very large area of salt water.
The sea has different areas:
Shoreline
Open sea
Ocean Depths

4. Fish What is a fish? A fish must have: Gills Scales
Backbone or cartilage
They are cold blooded, usually lay eggs and live in fresh or salt water.

5. Starfish The starfish is also called a sea star
It eats corals, clams, mussels and sea urchins
It lives in tide pools ad rocky shores
It can lay up to 2 million eggs at a time
Starfish can regenerate injured or missing body parts

6. Octopus and Squid
The octopus can grow up to 3 metres long and weigh up to 25 kilograms
They eat crabs, crayfish and molluscs
They like to live in warm oceans all over the world
Female lays up to 150,000 eggs
The octopus can release a cloud of black ink to provide cover while it escapes from enemies

7. Sharks
There are many different types of sharks. Some sharks are dangerous, while others are gentle. Most sharks are meat eaters. Many sharks have rows of very sharp pointed teeth. When a shark loses a tooth, another one can move in from the back row. Sharks can lay eggs or have live babies. These babies are called pups. Sharks have cartilage, not bones. Cartilage is lighter than bone. Sharks can sink if they stop swimming.

8. Sea Turtles Turtles are reptiles and can live up to 100 years
Some turtles are carnivores and others are herbivores
Turtles live all over the world in warmer oceans
The leatherback is the world’s largest turtle
Female turtles can lay over 100 eggs at a time

9. Seals and Sea lions Seals and sea lions are carnivorous marine mammals
They eat fish, shellfish, and other marine animals
Sea lions and fur seals have small external ears
Sea lions are larger and their fur is courser and shorter than a fur seal
Fur seals flippers are longer

10. Jellyfish
Jellyfish have been in the ocean for more than 650 million years
They have no bones, brains, hearts or eyes
Jellyfish are invertebrates, not fish
Its tentacles contain poisonous, stinging cells
There may be 2000 species of jellyfish, but only 70 harm or can kill people

11. Coral
Coral live in colonies, in warm shallow waters of the tropics and subtropics
Cells at the base of each polyp take lime from the sea water to build up a stony skeleton. These are the corals that form great reefs.
Coral are carnivores and eat plankton

12. Whales and Dolphins
Whales and dolphins are known as the gentle mammals of the sea
They are meat eaters
Dolphins eat fish, shrimp and squid
Whales eat plankton, fish, squid, sea lions, birds and other whales
Dolphins communicate by sound: clicking and whistling

13. Seahorses
Seahorses can grow up to 36 centimetres long and weigh up to 8 ounces
They are carnivores and eat plankton, crustaceans and tiny fish
Seahorses live in warm temperate oceans
The male seahorse keeps the female’s eggs in his brood pouch and carries them until they hatch

14. Glossary Crustacean a hard shell marine animal Invertebrate
without a back bone
Vertebrate
having a back bone
Cartilage
strong elastic tissue in body
Carnivore
only eats meat
Herbivore
only eats plants
Regenerate
to replace lost tissue or a lost limb or organ with a new growth
Colony
a group of animals or plants
Temperate
a climate that has a range of temperatures within moderate limits
Polyp
a single-cavity marine invertebrate
Plankton
a mass of tiny floating organisms

15. I hope you
enjoyed viewing
"The Sea" show
and got
lots of
interesting
information!