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Blackline Master | Planet Earth | Episode 11: Ocean Deep

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11 How much of the planet is covered by deep ocean?

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2 What is the biggest fish in the ocean?

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3 What area does the white tip shark patrol for food?

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4 What do the dolphins use to detect prey?

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5 How deep can the shearwaters dive?

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6 When does the deep water plankton rise?

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7 Name the two big grazing fish that eat the plankton

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8 What is the ‘marine snow’ of the deep levels?

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9 What is the unique defence of the vampire squid?

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10 At two miles down (just over 3.2km) what is the water

pressure?

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11 What do most sea floor animals eat?

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12 What energy source can start an ecosystem down

here?

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13 What is the fastest growing marine invertebrate?

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14 How many undersea volcanoes are there?

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15 What kind of coral can live in deep water?

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16 What do the dolphin prefer to eat?

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17 What does the sunfish (mola mola) eat in the deeps?

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18 What is the biggest animal that has ever existed?

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19 What do they eat?

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20 What was their original population and how many are

now left?

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