Ocean Zones
Oceans
Deep
Oceans and life
Name vs Name
100
The intertidal, oceanic, and neritic are all zones based on this variable.
What is distance from shore?
100
This is the number of oceans the world’s ocean has been divided into.
What is 5?
100
At this depth, the photic zone ends.
What is 200 m or 650 ft.?
100
As the second largest ocean, this body of water separated the old and the new worlds.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
100
Known as the zone between tides, this is another name for the intertidal zone.
What is littoral zone?
200
This ocean zone comprises the ocean floor.
What is the benthic zone?
200
The largest of the named oceans.
What is Pacific?
200
The middle zone based on depth received this name based on its lack of light.
What is aphotic?
200
This ocean, being the third largest, is between Africa and Sumatra.
What is the Indian Ocean?
200
The aphotic zone can be split into three zones, this is the lower most zone.
What is the abyssal pelagic zone?
300
In this ocean zone, life is often bioluminescent.
What is the aphotic zone?
300
If looking for the deepest point in the world’s ocean, you would go here.
What is the Mariana Trench?
300
The depth of the aphotic zone varies, but this is the average depth.
What is 4000 m or 12,000 ft.?
300
Close to the surface, this zone is the top zone based on depth.
What is photic?
300
This is another name for the photic, or top zone.
What is epipelagic zone?
400
This ocean zone rests over the continental shelf.
What is the neritic zone?
400
This ocean has two names and is located to the south of Africa.
What is the Southern or Antarctic Ocean?
400
The benthic zone at the Mariana Trench reaches this maximum depth.
What is 12,000 m or 36,000 ft.?
400
Some life in the aphotic zone will venture into the photic zone at night to complete this life giving task.
What is to feed or eat?
400
Located above the abyssal zone, it is difficult for fish to live in this zone.
What is the Bathyal pelagic zone?
500
In what ocean zone has life had to adapt to being in and out of the water.
What is the intertidal zone?
500
The smallest of the world’s oceans.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
500
This zone rests over the open ocean, it has the greatest depth of any of the distance based zones.
What is the Oceanic zone?
500
Deep in the aphotic zone, some life has developed this bio-chemical process in order to give the life an evolutionary advantage.
What is bio-luminescence?
500
Located just below the photic zone, this zone’s name means middle.
What is the mesopelagic zone?
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