Ocean Zones
Also called the Midnight Zone
What is the bathypelagic zone
What is the most abundant salt in saltwater
What is NaCL or Sodium Chloridee
The Greek word for the bottom?
What is Benthos
71%
How much water covers the earths surface
Organic matter that falls through the ocean zones
What is Marine Snow
Consists of the ocean trenches?
What is the Hadal zone (Hadalpelagic)
Potassium Chloride
What is KCL
The zone that lies on top of the continental shelf?
What is the Neritic Zone
Blue Whale
What is Coach C's favorite animal / largest mammal
H2O clings to another surface
What is Adhesion
Known as the sunlight zone
What is Epipelagic zone or Euphotic Zone
MgCl2
What is Magnesium Chloride
Top 200 meters of the ocean?
What is the Photic Zone
H2O
What is water
H2O clings to itself
What is Cohesion
The zone between the tides
What is the intertidal zone
CaCL
What is Calcium Chloride
The process in which currents bring deep, cold water to the surface of the ocean.
What is Upwelling
The chemical reaction that makes fish seem to glow
What is Bioluminescensce
Seashells are made of this
What is CaCO3 or Calcium Carbonate
The zone below 200m
What is the Aphotic zone
Na2SO4
What is Sodium Sulfate
When surface waters converge (come together), pushing the surface water downwards.
What is Downwelling
how salty is the water
What is salinity
Sonar
What is the method used to map the ocean floor