Light at the Bottom of the Deep Dark Ocean
NOAA Ocean Explorer
Ocean Literacy Principles:
OLP#5: The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.OLP#7: The ocean is largely unexplored.
Overview
Students will be able to list the various adaptations that enable deep-sea fishes to survive; explain how biolouminescence helps deep-sea fish respond to food predator and reproductive pressures in their environments; explore how the structure of an appendage helps determine and utilize its function; describe how deepwater organisms respond to their dark environment.
For more information: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov.
SUBJECTS:
GRADES: 9-12
This lesson meets National Science Standards
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