Pelagic Zones
The zone between the high tide and low tide line
What is the intertidal zone?
A large system of rotating currents
What are ocean gyres?
Single, soft-bodied animals that secrete a limestone shell and create coral reefs
What is a polyp?
What is the blue whale?
Animals that do not die naturally
What are jellyfish and lobsters?
Shallow bodies of water that remain within rocks along the intertidal zone during low tide
What are tide pools?
Currents in the Southern Hemisphere flow _______
What is counterclockwise?
When corals expel algae due to high ocean temperatures
What is coral bleaching?
An octopus has ___ hearts
What is 3?
The deepest known place in the ocean
Name three of the ocean pelagic zones
What are the Intertidal, Neritic, Oceanic, Benthic, Aphotic, Photic, Abyssal, Supratidal, Subtidal, Pelagic, Mesopelagic, Bathypelagic, Abyssopelagic zones?
Three things that affect ocean currents
What are the shape of the ocean floor, water density, salinity, temperature, rotation, and winds?
One type of hard coral
What is Staghorn, Table, Leaf Plate, Great Star, Brain, Pillar, etc.?
Name three animals from the photic zone
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Marine life makes up __ percent of all life forms on earth
What is 94?
The zone that covers the bottom of the ocean
What is the benthic zone?
What are winds that blow predominately from a particular direction?
A coral reef that is separated from the shoreline with a channel of water
What is a barrier reef?
The only continent turtles do not live on
What is Antarctica?
Zooxanthellae
What are microscopic algae that live inside of and have a symbiotic relationship with coral?
Zone of shallow water above the continental shelf
What is the neritic zone?
Another name for the oceans global conveyer belt
The number of tentacles that polyps have in soft corals
What is 8?
Name an animal from the abyssal zone
Answers will vary
The moon could fit across the Atlantic Ocean. True or false?
False, the moon could fit across the Pacific Ocean