ocean life
Creatures beneath waves
Ocean life encompasses the organisms inhabiting marine environments—from microscopic plankton to whales, from coral reefs to deep-sea vents.
The term covers both the creatures themselves and their collective existence: The documentary explored ocean life in the Pacific.
It often appears in conservation contexts: Climate change threatens ocean life worldwide.
- salt waterH2O with sodium chloride
- deep seaLightless ocean zone
- squidTen-armed marine mollusk
- planktonDrifting marine microlife
- coralMarine skeletal formation
bioluminescence · coral reefs · fish · great white · upwelling · kelp forests · hydrothermal vents · crustaceans · jellyfish · symbiosis · predation · tide pools · migration · fishing nets · pollution · coral bleaching · sea turtles · deep
- biology topicsanimals, plants, insects, dinosaurs, fish
- Europawater ice, ice crust, frozen surface, ridges, surface cracks
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- naturesun, moon, sky, trees, water
- ocean lifesea, sea creatures, shark, whale, dolphin
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