Ocean Areas
The smallest Ocean layer where 90% of ocean life lives.
What is the sunlight layer?
Along with bio-luminescence animals sometimes have large eyes and soft bodies in the twilight and midnight zone.
What are adaptations?
The largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Spews out hot water under the ocean.
What are vents?
Keeps the ocean water from freezing.
What is salt?
These increase as you go deeper in the ocean.
What are pressure and temperature?
Angler fish has this adaptation.
This Ocean is near the north pole.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
Made by little creatures called polyps.
What are coral reefs?
The largest trench in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Mariana Trench?
The largest ocean layer.
What is the Midnight Zone?
An animal is light on the bottom to blend in with the sunlight zone and darker on the top to blend in with the twilight or midnight zone.
What is counter shading?
This ocean runs along the east coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Found in warm water tropical waters.
What are coral reefs?
Vents spew out these three things.
What are hot water, minerals, and chemicals?
Photosynthesis occurs in this layer.
What is the Sunlight Layer?
What is a shark?
Water rises and then it falls, twice a day.
What is a tide?
Caused by an earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
The largest trench in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Marianas Trench?
What are light, temperature, sea creatures, and food?
These animals live near hydro-thermal vents because of this process which creates food.
What is chemosynthesis?
Carries food and oxygen throughout the ocean.
What are currents?
When one plate slips underneath another one this forms.
What is a trench?
Caused by wind, earthquakes, and the gravitational pull of the sun and moon.
What are waves?