Vocab No.1
What is a hydrothermal vent?
It is a fissure in the crust beneath the ocean that releases hot gases and nutrients.
what is brackish?
Salty and fresh water
What is an estuary?
This is where the ocean meets land. This water is usually brackish and contains both salt and fresh water.
what is a key part of an estuary?
It acts like a nusery.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
A gas that is produced naturally by consumers but also by pollution from cars and and other human inventions. Most of it is dissolved into the ocean.
what are upwellings?
The movement of cold water filled with nutrients to the surface
What is the photic zone(open ocean)?
The largest area of ocean and gets the most sun.
What controls the tide in the intertidal zone?
The moon
What is photosynthesis?
The process of using sunlight in shallow ocean zones to create food.
What is the Midnight zone( Deep ocean)?
This zone gets no sunlight and it's plants use chemosynthisis.
which area holds the most life?
The photic zone.
What are cold seeps?
The fissures in the crust beneath the ocean that relase cold gases and nutrients.
What is the intertidal Zone?
This is the area that tide goes over when it rises.
which two ocean zones are the most undiscoverd
The ocean floor and midnight zone
What is chemosynthesis?
The process of using chemicals in the deep oceans to create food without using sunlight.
What is the ocean floor?
This area is what the very bottom of the ocean is called, it is filled with cracks going into the earth.