Ocean Zones
Ocean Resources
Water Quality
Structure of the Hydrospere
Componets of The River
100
The zone goes from low tide line to the high tide line. Sometimes covered with water and contains tide pools.
What is the Intertidal Zone?
100
Harvested through commercial fishing in the Neritic Zone.
How is food applied to ocean resources?
100
A measure of the health of a water supply.
What is water quality?
100
All of the water found in, on, and around the Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
100
The land area that water flows across or under on its way to a river.
What is a River Basin?
200
Estuaries, Coral reefs, and nearly all commercial fish reside in this zone.
what is in The Neritic Zone
200
A large stream of moving water that carries water from part of the ocean to another.
What is a current?
200
Variables that reveal the health of a water system.
What are indicators?
200
Large mass of ice that moves slowly over land.
What is a glacier?
200
A smaller area of land that drains into a smaller river, stream, or lake.
What is watershed.
300
Region of the open sea beyond the edge of the continental shelf. Plankton, nekton, and benthos.
What is the Pelagic Zone?
300
Carries warm water along the surface of the ocean.
What is a surface current?
300
Turbidity, PH, and dissolved oxygen.
What are indicators of water?
300
71%
What percentage of water is Earth covered in?
300
A ridge line that divides one watershed or river basin from the next.
What is a divide?
400
Some Sunlight reaches this zone, but not enough for photosynthesis to occur.
What is the Dysphotic zone?
400
Drinking water
what removes salt in a desalination plant?
400
The degree to which water loses its transparency due to the presence of suspended particles.
What is Turbidity?
400
97% and 3%
What is the percentage of saltwater and freshwater in the hydrosphere?
400
The source of a River.
What are headwaters
500
Contains many species including Tube Worms.
What is the Abyssal zone?
500
Carrageenan
Which type of algae is used to add viscosity to ice cream and many other products?
500
greater than 4-5 ppm.
You must have how many ppm to support a diverse population of fish?
500
Ice
What form is most of the freshwater in the hydrosphere locked up in?
500
5
What is the number of river basins west of the Eastern Continental Divide.
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