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Aquarium of the Pacific Extra Credit (40 points)

Get a map in order to find the different galleries. Staple your ticket stub to this paper when you turn it in.

Great Hall of the Pacific
Watch the movie “Blue Whale: Journey with Giants” which is shown in this hall periodically throughout the day. Describe three things you learned during this presentation:

Blue Cavern (at the end of the great Hall)

How big does the Giant Sea Bass get? _________________________

So. CA/Baja Gallery (1 st floor)

Find the California Scorpionfish in the Amber Forest . What parts of its body are venomous?

Draw a shark egg case and name the species.

Go outside to Explorer’s Cove

Shark Lagoon

What are the names of the sharks you touched?

Find the information about on a sign or ask the shark pen worker why some sharks are endangered.

Lorikeet Forest

Give the scientific name (2 word Latin name) of one of the species of Lorikeet:

Rocky Intertidal TidePools

Name 3 things you touched in the tide pools.

Ray Touchpool

Name 2kinds of rays found in the ray pool

Go to the 2 nd Floor

Northern Pacific Gallery

What kinds of animals are found in the Surge Channel?

What kind of sea otters are found in the exhibit? _________________

Tropical Pacific Gallery

Draw an interesting fish you see.

How many types of coral do you see in the live coral exhibit? _______________

Name a poisonous creature. ­­­­_____________________________________

Make a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting the Tropical Pacific and Northern Pacific.

Write down things unique to the North Pacific on the left side, write things unique to the Tropical Pacific on the right side. Write down things that are the same or similar in the middle. Look for things like types of fish, temp. of water, colors of animals and plants etc.

Northern Pacific Tropical Pacific