Aquarium of the Pacific Worksheet
Main Lobby
Name _______________________
1.
What are the two different types of animals seen attached to the ceiling?
Open Ocean
2.
What is the name of the stinging cells in a sea jelly?
3.
What are the five stages of the Moon Jelly ( Aurelia sp .) and what does each stage do?
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Tropical Pacific Gallery Preview
4.
How much of the Caribbean Coral Reef’s are threatened with destruction?
5.
What is the temperature of the Tropical Pacific?
Northern Pacific Gallery Preview
6.
How many sea star species live in the Northern Pacific?
7.
What is the temperature of the Northern Pacific?
Southern California / Baja Gallery
8.
What is a MPA? What do they serve as?
9.
What is the temperature of the Southern California / Baja seas?

Kelp Forest
10.
Garibaldi - Which parent builds the nest and protects the eggs? How does the male make a clucking noise?
11.
Coastal Development and Pollution have contributed to a ____________ overall reduction of Kelp forest coverage is Southern California.
12.
Why do Moray Eels constantly open their mouths?
13.
Name five products that are produced by the kelp forest. a) b) c) d) e)
14.
How much kelp can be processed and how quickly?
_________ tons ________ hours
Outside Exhibits
15.
Sharks – How do you tell males from females?
16.
Some sharks eat embryos of unborn brothers and sisters. What is this called? What types of sharks demonstrate this behavior?
17.
Up to what percent is the liver part of a shark’s body weight? ______________ %
18.
How many teeth do sharks lose in their lifetime?
19.
If a person and a seal weigh the same, how much fat / blubber does each of them have?
Person: _______ fat Seal: _________ blubber
20.
What is it called when a harbor sea rest vertically?
21.
Why do sea lions vocalize?

22.
What are the differences between Seals and Sea Lions?
Vocalization
Rear Flippers
Neck
Ears
Skeletons
Seals Sea Lions
Inside Building
23.
Sea of Cortez – Why are the fish seen hiding in the sand? Why do they do this?
Northern Pacific Gallery Preview
24.
When was the Northern Pacific rocky shores created? How were they created?
25.
Which egg is better on a slanted cliff? (Murre eggs or Puffin eggs) Why?
26.
What are Alcids? How are they adapted to their environment? What hemisphere are they found in? What hemisphere are penguins found in?
27.
What are the different Alcids seen in the exhibit?
28.
What do Crested Auklets smell like? What does the strong scent aid in? What is it called when birds stick their feathers into each other?

29.
Giant Pacific Octopus – How long will they grow? ________ How much will they weigh? _____
How do they avoid detection? What limits what size hole they can go in?
30.
Sea otters – How much hair per square inch ___________? How many more times than dogs
________? How much food do they eat per day? ________ lbs per day. What is their favorite foods? ______________________________________________________________________
31.
Whales – Where do the following whales migrate between? a) Humpbacks ___________________________________ b) Blue _________________________________________ c) Gray _________________________________________
Tropical Pacific Gallery
32.
What are the Palau’s rock islands made up of?
33.
What causes zones?
34.
What are the five zones? a) b) c) d) e)
35.
Why do some reef crest corals secrete mucus?
36.
What are the fastest growing coral? How fast per year?
37.
Camouflaged Creatures. Name four different species on exhibit and explain how they are camouflaged. a) b) c) d)

38.
What are the names of the groups of fish that go through a sex change? a) b) c)
39.
Sea Snakes – How are they flattened? Why? What is the venom for? How long can they be submerged?
40.
Weedy Sea Dragons – How do they catch their prey? How much shrimp do they eat? Why do they look like they do?
41.
Choose a Large Aquarium Gallery and list 5 of your favorite organisms in this Gallery and 2 characteristics of interest for each.
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