Horizontal Zones
Vertical Zones
Ocean Facts
Name that Zone!
MYSTERY!
100
This zone is where you put your blanket down.
What is the supratidal zone?
100
This zone is where photosynthesis takes place.
What is the epipelagic (or photic) zone?
100
This is the percentage of the Earth is covered in water.
What is 71%?
100
This is the horizontal zone where most commercial fishing takes place.
What is the neritic zone?
100
This is the name of the first submersible that could hold human passengers.
What is Alvin?
200
This zone is also called the splash zone.
What is the supratidal zone?
200
This zone is nicknamed the trenches.
What is the hadopelagic?
200
This is the maximum depth light can penetrate the ocean.
What is 200 meters?
200
Organisms in this zone are very used to alternating conditions of wet and dry.
What is the intertidal zone?
200
This is the advantage submersibles have over SCUBA.
What is can dive to greater depths?
300
This marks the point of the highest tide.
What is the strandline?
300
This zone is where the first bioluminescent organisms are found.
What is the mesopelagic?
300
These are the two ways the oceans formed.
What is precipitation and comets?
300
In this zone, you will find many tidal pools.
What is the intertidal zone?
300
These are three reasons organisms use bioluminescence.
What is to attract mates, attract prey, and to distract predators?
400
This zone has the heaviest wave impact.
What is the subtidal zone?
400
This zone is also called the midnight zone.
What is the bathypelagic?
400
This is the color of most bioluminescence emitted by deep sea organisms.
What is blue?
400
This zone is always above the continental shelf.
What is the neritic zone?
400
Bioluminescence is the emission of light caused by a ______________ _________________.
What a chemical reaction?
500
These are the two divisions of the pelagic zone.
What are the oceanic and neritic zones?
500
In this zone you will find the Mariana Trench.
What is the hadopelagic?
500
These are the five major oceans of the world.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern?
500
This vertical zone includes all of the zones completely bathed in darkness.
What is the aphotic zone?
500
Challenge! This zone is found 7000 meters below sea level.
What is hadopelagic?
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