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Answer: Evaporation ↔ Water turning into vapor through heat, Condensation ↔ Vapor turning into tiny droplets, Precipitation ↔ Water falling from clouds as rain, hail, or snow, Transpiration ↔ Water vapor leaving plant leaves
💡 These stages repeat constantly, moving water between the seas, the air, the land, and plants.
Answer: Octopus ↔ Has 3 hearts, Seahorse ↔ The male carries the eggs until they hatch, Starfish ↔ Moves with hundreds of tiny tube feet, Dolphin ↔ Finds its prey using echoes
💡 Every sea creature has amazing abilities that help it survive, from the octopus's three hearts to the dolphin's echolocation.
Answer: The Bab al-Mandab Strait ↔ The Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, The Suez Canal ↔ The Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, The Strait of Gibraltar ↔ The Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, The Strait of Hormuz ↔ The Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman
💡 Straits and canals are narrow passages that ships travel through; some are natural, like Bab al-Mandab, and some are dug, like the Suez Canal.
Answer: The female digs in the beach sand and lays her eggs, then The eggs hatch after a few weeks, then The hatchlings crawl toward the sea, then The turtles grow up in the sea over many years
💡 The eggs are left in the warm sand until they hatch, then the hatchlings hurry to the sea, where they spend most of their lives.
Answer: Water evaporates with the sun's heat, then The vapor condenses and clouds form, then The water falls as rain, then The water flows and collects in seas and wells
💡 Water rises as vapor, then cools and condenses into clouds, and returns to the ground as rain, flowing into the seas or seeping underground.
Answer: Phytoplankton, then Zooplankton, then Sardines, then Tuna
💡 Zooplankton eat phytoplankton, sardines eat zooplankton, and then tuna hunt the sardines.
Answer: Carrying a cloth bag when shopping, Using a refillable water bottle, Collecting trash from the beach
💡 Every piece of plastic we do without or pick up never reaches the sea, while balloons and abandoned bags often end up in the water.
Answer: Phytoplankton, Seagrass, Seaweed
💡 Phytoplankton, seagrass, and seaweed make their food from sunlight, while the shark and the crab are consumers.
Answer: Rising seawater temperature, Throwing trash and plastic, Stepping on coral and breaking it
💡 Heat, pollution, and breakage harm coral, while fish are part of its environment, and mangrove trees protect the coast and trap sediment.
Answer: Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain
💡 Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain are Arabian Gulf countries, while Jordan's outlet is on the Gulf of Aqaba and Sudan is on the Red Sea.
Answer: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan
💡 Countries bordering the Red Sea include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen, while Kuwait is on the Arabian Gulf and Oman is on the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman.
Answer: The blue whale, The dolphin, The dugong
💡 The whale, dolphin, and dugong breathe with lungs and nurse their young, while the whale shark is a fish and the turtle is a reptile.
Answer: False ✖
💡 Some groundwater built up over thousands of years and renews very slowly, so pumping too much depletes it.
Answer: True ✔
💡 The blue whale gulps huge amounts of water and filters it through plates in its mouth to catch krill.
Answer: False ✖
💡 Plastic stays in the environment for a very long time, breaking into tiny pieces instead of disappearing.
Answer: True ✔
💡 The amount of water on Earth is almost constant; it has been evaporating, condensing, and falling again and again for millions of years.
Answer: False ✖
💡 Coral is an animal from the cnidarian group (stinging animals); it lives in colonies and catches tiny organisms with its tentacles.
Answer: True ✔
💡 The Red Sea is very salty because of high evaporation, little rainfall, and no large rivers flowing into it.
Answer: True ✔
💡 In sea turtles, warmer sand tends to produce females and cooler sand produces males, so rising temperatures affect their numbers.
Answer: False ✖
💡 Despite its name, the whale shark is a fish, a type of shark that breathes with gills; it got its name because of its huge size.
