Ocean Floor/Zones
This zone is near the top of the ocean and is full of life.
What is sunlit zone?
The ocean tides are caused by this...
What is the moon?
Creatures that eat debris and spew out clean water are called
What are filter feeders?
Aqua is a Latin word that means...
What is water?
This is the middle zone of the 3 main ocean zones. It is darker and colder here and you might find squid and viperfish.
What is the twilight zone?
Circular currents are called...
What are gyres?
The oceans make up this percent of the Earth's crust.
What is 71%?
Name the 2 types of plankton
What is phytoplankton and zooplankton?
The bottom zone of the ocean is ice cold and no light is here. This zone is home to bioluminescent jelly fish and deep sea anglerfish.
What is the midnight zone?
There are this many high tides in one day...
What is 2?
The place where a river meets with an ocean or sea...
What is an estuary?
Animals that drift with the currents are called...
What is Plankton?
Scientists use these machines to explore the ocean depths.
What is a submersible?
Surface currents are mainly caused by the...
What is wind?
These are smaller than oceans, made up of salt water and mostly surrounded by land.
What are seas?
Benthic creatures move this way across the bottom of the ocean...
What is scurry or crawl?
From the shore out to the deep, these are the 4 parts of the ocean floor:
What is the continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise, abyssal plain?
Currents caused by temperature and salt levels are called...
What are thermohaline currents?
The 5 named oceans are...
What is Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Southern?
Animals that can swim are called...
What is Nektonic?