Life in the ocean
Ocean organisms
Ocean Conditions
Relationship among organisms
Ocean floor features
100
What are the three categories of ocean organisms?
What is Plankton, Nekton, and Benthos.
100
Name three examples of benthos.
Possible answers are ealgrass, crab, brittle star, sand dollars, sea pen, and octopus.
100
What is the first ocean zone? (closest to the beach)
What is Intertidal zone
100
True or false algae use sunlight to produce their own food?
What is true.
100
The smooth nearly flat region of the ocean floor
What is abyssal plain
200
True or false a whale is a Nekton
True
200
Name three examples of nekton.
What is jellyfish, dolphin, sardines, bat ray, and ocean sunfish.
200
What is the zone in the middle of the open-ocean zone and intertidal zone?
What is Neritic zone
200
_________ are decomposers. a. benthos b. nekton c. plankton
benthos
200
A continuous range of mountains on the ocean floor
What is mid-ocean ridge
300
Do benthos move from place to place or stay in one location?
Some move while others stay in one place
300
What is a plankton?
Plankton are tiny algae and animals that float in the water and are carried by waves and currents.
300
The open-ocean zone is divided into the surface zone, the transition zone, and the ______________ zone.
deep
300
Which of the following may eat plankton? a. sea ducks b.blue whales c. other plankton d. all of the above
d. all of the above
300
The shallow area of the ocean floor extending outward from land
What is continental shelf
400
What characteristics do scientists use to classify ocean organisms.
Scientists classify ocean organisms by where they live and how they move.
400
What are all nekton? a. producers b. consumers c. decomposers
consumers
400
true or false: animals that live at the bottom of the ocean must be able to withstand extreme pressure.
What is true
400
a __________ _______ is all of the feeding relationships in a habitat.
What is food web
400
A steep-sided canyon in the ocean floor
What is trench
500
What is an organism that inhabits the ocean floor.
What is benthos
500
Name 2 examples of plankton.
What is diatoms and copepods.
500
True or false deep in the ocean there is a lot of pressure.
What is true.
500
Algae that use sunlight to produce their own food through photosynthesis are called ______________ plankton.
What is Photosynthetic.
500
A mountain on the ocean floor that is completely under water
What is sea mount
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