Sea Creatures
Ocean Floor
Bodies of Water
More Sea Life
Sea Terms
100
what swimming animals are called
What are aquatic animals?
100
causes the tides
What is the moon?
100
the four oceans of the world
What is Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic?
100
why plankton are important to all sea life
What is they are food for many sea creatures?
100
deep, dark ocean floor is called what
What is the abyssal plain?
200
animals that drift with the currents
What are plankton?
200
circular currents
What are gyres?
200
smaller than oceans but made up of salt water because they are connected to oceans
What are seas?
200
animals that filter their food out of the water
What are filter feeders?
200
this stops us from going down deep into the ocean
What is water pressure?
300
animals that can swim
What are nektonic creatures?
300
the four zones of the ocean floor in order from the shore out to the deep
What are continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise, and abyssal plain?
300
places where a river meets an ocean or sea
What is an estuary?
300
an example of a sessile animal
What are sponges/corals?
300
part of the ocean floor that goes up to 600 feet
What is continental shelf?
400
animals that do not swim but move across the bottom of a body of water
What are benthic creatures?
400
three zones in which aquatic creatures live (for test study them in order from the surface of the ocean to the deep)
What are the sunlit zone, the twilight zone, and the midnight zone?
400
the two types of tides
What is high tide and low tide?
400
two kinds of plankton
What is phytoplankton and zooplankton?
400
an animal's ability to make its own light
What is bioluminescence?
500
where zooplankton can be found at night
What is near the surface of the water?
500
currents caused by temperature and salt levels
What are thermohaline currents?
500
underwater space ship
What are submersibles?
500
label the parts of the ocean floor (must be able to do this for the test)
What is shelf, slope, rise, abyssal plain, etc? (label on picture)
500
erupts underwater to release salt into the water
What are volcanoes?
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