The Abyss
What percent of the creatures in the abyss have the ability of bioluminescence?
Around 90%
Adaptation for intense darkness
very large eyes or bioluminesence
These form where hot water and gases from below the seafloor mix with water and gases from the overlying ocean
What are hydrothermal vents?
This ocean zone starts at around 600 ft and ends about 3000 ft
What is the twilight zone?
What do creatures in the abyss use Bioluminescence for?
They use it for: attracting prey, communicating, and confusing preditors
Adaptations for intense cold
Slow movement and slow reproduction
The conversion of chemicals into food/energy
What is chemosynthesis?
snipe eel, sea cucumber, and vampire squid are usually found in this light zone
What is the midnight zone?
Name any 2 creatures from The Abyss.
Glass Octopus or Piglet Squid or Vampire Squid or Blacksnout Seasnail or Fangtooth or Mushroom Soft Coral, octopus, marine hatchetfish, anglerfish, flashlight fish, pineconefish, gulper eels, many rattails, many sea pens, certain nudibranchs, the colossal squid and the Sparkling Enope Squid.
An abiotic factor that gets stronger the deeper you go as a direct result of gravity
What is intense pressure
These microorganisms are the primary producers of hydrothermal vent ecosystems
What are bacteria?
90% of all marine life live in this zone
What is the sunlight zone?
A layer of organisms that migrate each day from the deep ocean to the shallows at night
What is the deep scattering layer?
The Abyssopelagic Zone is difficult to define, but it is often defined as the area where the water hits this temperature
What is 4 degrees Celsius?
These animals live in hard chitin tubes near hydrothermal vents
What are tubeworms?
Only a small amount of light shows in this zone
What is the twilight zone?
The most common color of organisms in the abyss
black transparent or red
What are the 5 zones in their scientific name?
The 5 zones : Epipelagic Mesopelagic Bathypelagic Abyssopelagic Hadalpelagic
This is the top predator of vent communities
What are vent crabs?
90% of the ocean is this zone
What is the midnight zone?