Ocean Geology
Ecosystems
Water Zones
Plants&Animals
Bonus
100
Mid Ocean Ridge
What is the largest mountain range on Earth?
100
Habitat
What is the area where organisms live?
100
Oceanic/Pelagic
What is the open ocean zone called?
100
Stalk
What is the part of a seaweed that holds the plant upright?
100
Turbidity
What is a measure of the dissolved sediments in a water column?
200
Abyssal Plains
What deep flat areas of the ocean floor?
200
Niche
What is an animals job or role in the community?
200
Neckton/Neritic
What are animals able to freely move and region that accounts for 90% of the World's fisheries?
200
Lateral Line
What is the sensory organ that runs down the side of a fish?
200
Plankton
What are microscopic plants and animals that are the basis for the bottom of the food chain in the ocean?
300
Trench
What is a deep narrow area associted with subduction zones?
300
Mutalism
What is a relationship where both parties benefit?
300
Wetland
What is an area of water that can be either salt or fresh water that provides nutrients, protection for small organisms boardering coasts.
300
Holdfast
What is the part of a seaweed that anchors it to the seafloor?
300
Detritus
What is broken down plant and animal matter that is converted into nutrients for organims?
400
Contiental Shelf
What is the area that slopes down to the ocean floor?
400
Commensalism
What is a relationship were one party benefits without significantly affecting the other?
400
Riparian Zone
What is the region between a river and or stream?
400
Blades
What are primary sites where photosynthesis occurs in a seaweed?
400
Eutrophication
What is a bloom of algae that sucks all the oxygen out of a body of water, smothering other organisms?
500
Continental Slope
What is the area that has a steep rise from the seafloor to the continent.
500
Community
What is a system that includes all living organisms?
500
Estuary
What is the portion of the ocean that is semi-isolated by land and diluted with freshwater?
500
Andromous
What are fish that reproduce in freshwater but live most of their life in saltwater?
500
Photic Zone
What is the area in a water column that photosynthesis can occur?
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