Marine Life Bingo
Objective: Students will be able to classify various types of marine life
and learn marine science vocabulary
Materials:
Science questions and definitions
Bingo cards with words listed
Bingo chips
Procedure:
Have students cover their Free Spot
Each student should listen to questions or define terms. Each term that
they find on their card should be marked with a chip.
When a student has completed a row, have them call BINGO. You may ask
them to cover all terms before calling out BINGO. Check the student’s
card. Students may exchange cards and continue the game.
Example:
1. An (ESTUARY) is a semi-enclosed basin where salt water and fresh water
mix.
2. An animal with jointed appendages and an exoskeleton is an (ARTHOPOD).
3. (LARVAE) is the plural for larva
4. A process where the exoskeleton of all arthropods is shed (MOLT)
5. These animals live in the sea and have two pairs of antennae (CRUSTACEAN).
6. The tough outer covering providing support and protection for many
invertebrates (EXOSKELETON)
7. Freefloating, usually tiny, plants and animals that drift with the
current in the sea (PLANKTON)
8. The region or type of environment where an organism can be found (HABITAT)
9. Freefloating, usually tiny, animals in the ocean (ZOOPLANKTON)
10. Animals with a backbone (VERTEBRATES)
11. Dead, decaying matter that was once living (DETRITUS)
12. A (FOOD WEB) is a complex, interwinding flow of energy through a community.
13. Free-floating, plants in the ocean (PHYTOPLANKTON)
14. A bivalve that grows in a bed and is eaten by man (OYSTER).
15. The periodic rise and fall of ocean water due to the gravitational
pull of the sun and moon and the earth’s rotation (TIDE)
16. A (MARSH) is a wetland area whose predominant plant is grasses.
17. The part of the wave that is on top. (CREST)
18. The bottom part of a wave that drags across the floor of the ocean
(TROUGH)
19. A mollusk with two hinged shells (BIVALVE)
20. An area of the ocean or sea from top to bottom (WATER COLUMN)
21. The movement of the water by the wind (WAVE)
22. Organisms that can produce their own food (AUTOTROPH).
23. A squid, snail, or clam (MOLLUSK)
24. A crustacean found in salt marshes (SHRIMP).
Thanks to Millie Hudson, Mobile Alabama
