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Ocean Zones
Vocabulary
100
anything animal or organism that lives in water is ...
What is aquatic?
100
is the difference in height between a high tide and the next low tide.
What is Tidal Range?
100
is the movement of water up to the surface .
What is Up-welling?
100
zone never receives sunlight and is full of darkness. Is at the bottom of a body of water.
What is Albyssal Zone?
100
where salt and fresh water mix.
What is Estuaries ?
200
anything that lives or relates to land is.....
What is Terrestrial ?
200
is the high point ofa wave.
What is Crest?
200
catching fish at a faster rate than they are being produced.
What is Over-fishing?
200
is the area above water at low tide and under water at high tide.
What is Interidal Zone?
200
plankton consisting of of microscopic plants.
What is Phytonplanton?
300
is an opening in the sea floor out of which heated mineral-rich water flows.
What is Hydrothermal Vents.
300
is the flat or gently sloping land that lies submerged around the edges of the a continent and it extends from the shoreline to the .....
What is Continental Shelf?
300
is the zone of the open ocean that is sunlit .
What is surface zone?
300
is the part of the open sea or ocean that is not near the coast or sea floor.
What is Pelagic Zone?
300
an area of coastal grassland that is regularly flooded by seawater.
What is Salt Marshes?
400
is a forest but is not made of trees . It is made of underwater seaweed call...
What is Kelp Forest?
400
is the movement of water from the surface to greater depths.
What is Down-Welling?
400
are wet , swamp areas that are often flooded with water.
What is wet lands?
400
the lowest level of a body of water. (which zone)
What is Benthic Zone?
400
are various large and extensive types of trees up to medium height and shrubs grows along the coastal sediment habitats.
What is Mangrove Forest?
500
is the portion of a lake or ocean where there is little or no sunlight.
What is Aphotic Zone?
500
changes in the air and water movements cause a global weather event called...
What is El Nino?
500
is important because this body of water is the nursey for baby fish , but it can be destroyed by buildings.
Why are estuaries important and how are they destroyed.
500
the zone that receives sunlight. Plants can there here.
What is Photic Zone?
500
are diverse underwater ecosystems held together by carbonate structures called....
What is Coral Reefs?
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