Vocabulary
This prefix means top or upper
What is the prefix Epi-?
The scientific name for the Sunlight Zone
What is the Epipelagic Zone?
I study the mineral content of water including the presence of pollution.
What is a chemical oceanographer ?
Dolphin
This prefix means middle
What is the prefix Meso- ?
This is the English name for the Hadapelagic Zone
What is the Trenches Zone ?
I study the geography of the ocean floor and underwater volcanos
What is a geographical oceanographer?
Sea Turtle
What is the Epipelagic/ Sunlight Zone?
This prefix means no bottom in Greek
What is the prefix Abyss-?
In this layer/zone of the ocean the temperature never changes always remaining at 39 degrees F
What is the Bathypelagic Zone ?
I study waves and currents in the ocean, and how the oceans affect weather and climate worlwide
What is a physical oceanographer?
Sea Cucumber
What is the Hadapelagic / Trenches Zone?
This word means the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
What is the word biodiversity?
The Mariana Trench, off the coast of Japan, is part of this ocean zone/layer.
What is the Hadapelagic Zone ?
I study the wide variety of life that exist in the ocean and how they affect each other.
What is a biological oceanographer?
Anglerfish
What is the Bathypelagic (Midnight) OR Abyssopelagic Zones ?
This word means organic matter that drifts down from the upper layers of the ocean (serves as food for the bottom feeders)
What is marine snow?
A tiny single celled organism, foraminifera, was found of the coast of Guam in 2005 in this zone ?
What is the Trenches Zone?
If you wanted to understand how a whale and shrimp interact in the ocean you would study this.
What is biological oceanography?
Crab
What is the Epipelagic / Sunlight Zone ?