Ocean Layers
What is the top layer of the ocean?
Sunlight Sone
Instead of using single use plastic bottles, what can you use?
Reusable water bottles
What is erosion?
The process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural agents.
What is the alternative for putting plastic into landfills?
Recycling
Where does a Clown fish live?
Anemone
What layer lies below the sunlight zone?
Twilight Zone
This happens when the environment is contaminated, or dirtied, by waste, chemicals, and other harmful substances. The three main forms are air, water, and land.
Pollution
What is the continental shelf?
The area of seabed around a large landmass where the sea is relatively shallow compared with the open ocean. The continental shelf is geologically part of the continental crust.
True or False: Disposable coffee cups can be recycled
False - Most are coated in a thin layer of plastic, making it hard to recycle them.
Name an adaptation that a jellyfish has
Stinger, venom, poison, clear/camouflage
Where does light come from in the Dark Zone?
Name three items that can be recycled
Plastic bottles, Cardboard boxes, glass bottles (anything that has the recycling sign on it)
What is a tsunami?
A long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.
How much of the plastic put into recycling bins is actually recycled?
9%
Name 3 of the most unusual adaptations you can think of. How would it help that animal in the ocean?
Answers may vary (10,000 eyes, long hair, a big fuzzy blanket etc.)
What is the deepest point in the ocean that has been explored?
The Marina Trench
A plastic circle (the ones that hold soda bottles together) is floating in the ocean and it gets stuck around a sea turtles neck. What can you do to prevent this?
Cut up the circles before you throw them away in the trash
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
A mid-ocean ridge or mid-oceanic ridge is an underwater mountain range, formed by plate tectonics. This uplifting of the ocean floor occurs when convection currents rise in the mantle beneath the oceanic crust and create magma where two tectonic plates meet at a divergent boundary.
True or False: There is an island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean the size of Texas
True
Whales have blubber on their body. How does blubber help an animal in the ocean?
It keeps them warm when the water is really cold
Over 75% of the ocean's floor can be found in this layer
The Abyssal Layer aka the "Abyss"
True or False: Plastic bags and other plastics kills over 1 million sea creatures every year.
True
What is the rift zone?
A large area of the earth in which plates of the earth's crust are moving away from each other, forming an extensive system of fractures and faults.
How much plastic is dumped into oceans annually?
More than 8 million tons
You are swimming in the ocean. You see an animal, and from the top they look the same color as the ocean floor. From the bottom, they are the same color as the sky. What adaptation is this animal demonstrating?
Camouflage