Parts of the Ocean
Ocean Currents/Tides
Effects on Ocean Environments
Layers of the Ocean
Ocean Food Webs
100
The flat area of the ocean
What is abyssal plain?
100
These are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon's gravity. They occur every ___ hours
What are tides and 12?
100
The amount of salt in the water.
What is Salinity?
100
This is where most animals live because they need the sunlight.
What is Sunlit Zone?
100
These are the 3 key types found on any food chain.
What are producers, consumers and decomposers?
200
The shallow part of the ocean on the edges of the continents?
What is the Continental Shelf?
200
The amount of salt in the water
What is Salinity?
200
These are caused by water being pushed up on the shore.
What are waves?
200
Barely any animals live here because it is too cold.
What is Midnight Zone?
200
These start the food chain.
What are producers?
300
The underwater mountains caused by plate movements
What are Mid Ocean Ridges?
300
This type of water is heavier which causes it to sink to the bottom.
What is cold water?
300
This affects where organisms live because most organisms need sunlight
What is Depth?
300
This is the middle zone where there is not enough sun for plants.
What is the Twilight Zone?
300
They live on the ocean floor and fed off dead or decaying organisms.
What are decomposers?
400
The deepest part of the ocean
What is the Trench?
400
These 3 things cause ocean currents.
What is wind, temperature and salinity?
400
Organisms needing warmer water often live near here.
What is the Equator?
400
It gets this as you go down deeper into the ocean.
What is colder?
400
These are larger organisms that eat other organisms in order to survive.
What are composers?
500
The gentle sloping area that connects to the steep walls of the continental slope to the ocean floor
What is the Continental Rise?
500
Water near here heats up and evaporates causing the salt to be left behind and making that water have a higher salinity.
What is the Equator?
500
Waves often cause a lot of this on the beach.
What is Erosion?
500
The pressure does this as you go down deeper into the ocean.
What is increases?
500
These are tiny plants that produce food from the sunlight.
What are phytoplankton?
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