What zone is from the low tide line to the end of the Continental Shelf?
What is The Neritic Zone?
100
A region of open sea beyond the edge of the continental shelf.
What is the Pelagic Zone?
100
The sea floor beneath the open ocean zone. Extends from the base of the continental slope to the base of the opposite continental slope?
What is the Abyssal Zone?
100
What are the two types of plankton?
What are zooplanktion, and phytoplankton?
100
Serve as the base of the open ocean food webs.
What is Microscopic Algae?
200
What are collections of generations of dead and living coral animals that also serve as home to fish, mullosks, crustations and alge?
What is Coral Reefs?
200
What three zones are found within the pelagic zone?
What are photic, disphotic and aphotic zones?
200
Geysers on the sea floor that continusly gush super-hot, mineral-rich water that supports a diverse community mof organisms.
What is Hydrothermal Vents?
200
5 Unique species in the Aphotic Zone
What are Angel Fish, Cuttlefish, Giant Squid, Gulper Fish, Gulper Eel, Vampire Squid?
200
These things are subject to rapid and extreme changes in salinity and temperature and are found in the inter-tidal zone?
What are tide pools?
300
What serves as nurtures for marine organisms, filters for materials entering from rivers, and buffer zone to absorb storm surges?
What are Estuaries?
300
Animal that are free to swim throughout the water column, include large marine animals.
What are Nekton?
300
Organisms rely on this for food. (Dead/dying plants and animals from the photic zone)
What is Marine Snow
300
This type of fish lives in the bethic zone and stays near or close to the Sea Floor.
What is the Benthic Fish?
300
Name the three unique ecosystems in the pelagic zone.
What are Benthic Zone, Abysl Zone, and hydrothermal vents?
400
What are collections of algae that are anchored to the rocky bottom? HINT: Major habitat for sea urchins and lions.
What are Kelp forests?
400
Bottom dwelling, deep sea creatures.
What are Benthos?
400
Produce food by chemosynthesis using chemicals in the mineral rich water to produce food.
What is Bacteria?
400
This type of plankton is plant like.
What is phytoplankton?
400
In what zone do animals have thin bodies that help them hide from predators?
What is the Dysphotic Zone?
500
What develops a mutualistic relationship with the algae living inside it?
What is Coral?
500
Trenches in the pelagic zone are deeper than what major mountain is tall.
What is Mount Everest?
500
Name the 9 unique species found in the Abyssal Zone.
What are, Bacteria, Tube Worms, Ghost Crabs, Zoarcid Fish, Snails, Shrimps, Clams, and Octopus?
500
This type of plankton is animal like.
What is zooplankton?
500
In what zone do animals have very dense flat bodies, negative buoyancy, no swim bladder, and they burry themselves to wait for food to fall down or to strike at prey above them.