Exploring the Ocean
Ocean Habitats
Intertidal Zone
Neritic and Open Ocean
100
Sound navigation and ranging system which maps the ocean floor is called this.
What is sonar?
100
Starts are the low tide marker and stretches to the high tide marker
What is the intertidal zone?
100
a place where fresh water meets salt water
What is an estuary?
100
Can only be found in warm tropical water and rely on microscopic algae to live
What are environmental coral reefs?
200
A gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of a continent.
What is a continental shelf?
200
Stretches from the low tide marker to the edge of the continental shelf
What is the neritic zone?
200
Short gnarled trees that grow in brackish water
What are mangroves?
300
A continuous range of mountains that winds around the Earth.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
300
Any area of the ocean extending beyond the continental shelf.
What is the open ocean zone?
300
small areas of water left behind when the tide leaves during low tide
What are tide pools?
400
Marks the true edge of the continent, this is where the rocks that make up the ocean floor begin.
What is a continental slope?
400
organisms that inhabit the ocean floor
What are benthos?
400
These creatures use mucus to form a tight seal to the rocks upon which they lie
What are barnacles?
500
The smooth nearly flat region of the ocean floor.
What is an abyssal plain?
500
tiny algae and animals that float in the water and are carried by waves and currents.
What are plankton?
500
This creature uses its spines to dig itself into the sand so it wont be carried away by the waves.
What is a sea urchin?
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