Oceanography
The largest ocean
What is the Pacific?
The coastal zone between high and low tide
What is the intertidal zone?
A food source for creatures in the aphotic zone made of organic matter that 'rains' down from above.
What is detritus?
This species uses a lure to attract it's prey in the Abyssal zone.
What is the angler fish?
A disaster usually occurring at a drill site that releases huge amounts of pollution into the ocean.
What is an oil spill?
The ocean at the north pole
What is the Arctic Ocean?
The ocean zone with the highest biodiversity
What is the neretic zone?
A characteristic of deep sea creatures which causes them to glow in the dark
What is bioluminescence?
This species migrates great distances in the oceanic zone and only comes on land to lay eggs.
What is the sea turtle?
A tool used in oil spill clean up that sweeps oil across the water surface.
What is a skimmer?
The ocean at Canada's east coast.
What is the Atlantic?
Known as the 'desert ocean'
What is the oceanic zone?
Waters between 3000m and 6000m deep are defined as this zone.
What is the Abyssal Zone?
This large sea creature crosses from the photic zone to aphotic zone to hunt giant squid.
What is a sperm whale?
A tool used in oil spill clean up that causes oil to break up and sink.
What is a dispersant?
The body of water between Florida and Mexico
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
This type of creature lives on the surface of the ocean floor and remains fixed in one place.
What is a sessile creature?
A process by which sulphates are used to make glucose and oxygen.
What is chemosynthesis?
These deep sea creatures remained fixed to the ocean floor around hydrothermal vents and are bright red in colour.
What are tube worms?
The Canadian film maker that travelled to the bottom of the Marianna Trench alone in a submarine.
Who is James Cameron?
The deepest part of the ocean
What is the Marianna Trench?
This category of creature burrows beneath the surface of the benthic zone
What is infauna?
Hot sea water spewed out from fissures in the ocean floor.
What are hydrothermal vents?
This ocean creature lives in the intertidal zone and must change its shell as it grows.
What is the hermit crab?
The year of the first human exploration of the Marianna Trench.
What is 1960?