Do you know any fun facts about fish and the ocean?

Question

I am doing a kindergarten art project next week and I am having trouble with getting some inspiration.
I have "Nemo" coloring pages printed out-- but that's not enough (in my overacheiver's opinion).

Thanks for any help you can offer!

Answer 1

fish have no eyelids, so they dislike sunlight

Answer 2

"the living ocean"

I'm not sure if this is appropriate for kinder-kids or not, but every cubic centimeter of ocean water (at least neaer the surfce) contains thousands of different types of microbes

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"Microbes are the central processors of matter and energy in almost every ecosystem imaginable -- especially so in the sea," said MIT Professor Ed DeLong, who led the work. Thousands of different types of microbes, the world's smallest creatures, inhabit every cubic centimeter of seawater. They have huge effects on ocean chemistry and possibly even climate.

However, "their complex interactions are really tough to study in natural environments," DeLong said. "We took a shortcut to understanding their environmental activities by analyzing the DNA from whole communities of microbes."

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Not surprisingly, in samples from the sunlit waters within about 100 meters of the surface, they discovered many microbial DNA sequences that were associated with photosynthesis. This indicates that many microbes in these waters probably use sunlight as a source of energy.

Surface samples also contained microbial DNA associated with movement and propulsion. "This suggests that movement may be especially important for surface-water microbes, perhaps helping them follow chemical gradients or move from food particle to food particle," said DeLong, who has appointments in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and in the Biological Engineering Division.

In contrast, DNA from microbes in deeper waters suggests many may survive by attaching to and breaking down particles of organic material. Such particles continually sink down from the surface waters into the deep sea, providing food for many organisms in the form of "marine snow."

Perhaps the most surprising finding was the large amount of DNA that came from viruses, especially in near-surface waters. Since the researchers excluded free-living viruses from their initial sample, they believe that this viral DNA must have come from viruses that had infected living bacteria.

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the idea that virus' infect living bacteria on large scales out there in the ocean [doesn't bother *me* going into the ocean] but makes the idea of a "living ocean" a very real thing.

some peoepl think that the ocean is the soup that a lot of life came from

Answer 3

when it comes to the sea the most interesting fact that I know is Seahorses. When they find a mate they chance color to match each other, they dance around holding each others tails, and when they get pregnant the male carries the children and gives birth.

Answer 4

many fish taste good also many taste bad

some can eat you some are poisonous
in some places the ocean is full of poop

Answer 5

fish live in water