Caribbean Coral Reef:
Night Life

1. Descending to a coral reef site at night, you wave your arms through the water and see flashes of blue-green light. What is this?

2. Having arrived at the night reef scene, you are careful to avoid bumping into corals. Why?

3. What is the name of the individual coral animals?

4. As you shine your light upon a brain coral, you notice that it looks fuzzy. Why?

5. In the night life picture, an octopus is seen moving toward a spiny lobster. Why?

6. Which fish in the night life drawing is feeding on a brittle star?

7. Your dive buddy sees a fire worm on a coral and gives you the danger signal. Why?

8. Before your dive is over, a shark can be seen from a distance. As it moves slightly closer, notice that it is a lemon shark. Are there any lemon sharks here at the Maine Aquarium?
   

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