Can Sea Life Adapt to Scorching Oceans?

What they using sea urchins to study?

• Changing ocean environments

• The longevity of echinoderms

• The regenerative properties sea urchins

• The culinary delights of echinoderms

Sea Urchins _______ extremely quickly.

• Adapt

• Grow

• Regenerate

• Bottom-dewelling

If other animals can not adapt to the increase in acidification they will

• go extinct

• increase in size

• decrease in size

• evolve rapidly

What percentage of fossil fuels emissions are absorbed into the ocean?

• 0%

• 25%

• 75%

• 50%

What food are sea urchins often used in?

• Sushi

• Soups

• Sandwiches

• Scooping

Crabs, Coral, and Sea Urchins may not be able to build their_____

• Shells and Skeletons

• Teeth and Claws

• Time and Spin

• Lungs and Heart

Diversity in Urchin genetics is beneficial for natural selection.

• True

• False

Peppered Moths were able to adapt to

• Changes in tree bark due to an increase in smoke stacks.

• Changes in seasons creating whiter environments

• Changes in genetic variation due to mutations in the population

• Changes in acidification in their environment

Shallow waters are often stagnant and does not often change

• true

• false

Sea urchins can adapt to the changes in acidification, however will they be able to do so forever?

• The experiments do not give a deadline

• The experiment gives urchins a 3 year extension if levels keep rising at this rate

• Urchins will be able to adapt indefinately.