Vocabulary
Bodies of water around the earth are divided into these ?
What are Oceans
This creates the tides
What is gravitational pull of the moon
This is an example of an organism that lives in the intertidal zone
What is mussels, sea anemones, hermit crabs, sea sponges, sea cucumbers, algae, barnacles
What is protein
When the ocean reaches the lowest point along the shore
What is Low Tide
These two types of tides occur twice each day
What are high and low tides
This determines what zone the ocean water is classified into?
What is sunlight or What is depth
Corals are made by tiny animals called?
What are polyps
The ocean is divided into different zones called this?
What is Oceanic Pelagic Zones
These are shallow bodies of water that remain within rocks along the intertidal zone during low tide
What are Tide Pools
What is the Sunlight (Epipelagic) Zone
This is killing coral reefs
What is pollution or climate change
The branch of science that investigates the organisms that live in salt water
What is Marine Biology
This is the amount of time between two high tides
What is 12 hours
This zone gets it's name from the Greek word meaning "bottomless"
What is the Abyss or Abyssopelagic Zone
This large coral reef is the biggest in the world?
What is the Great Barrier Reef
This is a ridge of limestone formed from hard coral
What is the Coral Reef
The area of the ocean shore found between the high tide and the low tide
What is Intertidal Zone
The Hadopelagic Zone is also known as this?
What is the trench zone
Coral rely on algae called this to give them color and provide food?
What is zooxanthellae?