Similar to fresh water systems, this life zone is found along shorelines.
What is the littoral zone?
100
A vortex in the air or water is also known as this.
What is a gyre?
100
This is the most harmful type of ocean fishing.
What is shrimp trawling?
100
These are three of the precious metals/gems that are mined.
What are gold, silver, copper, manganese, cobalt, zinc, and diamonds?
100
This percentage determines sea water from brackish water.
What is 3.5%?
200
The coastal ocean system where fresh water and salt water meet, often cities and idustries are located in near these areas.
What is an estuary?
200
This percentage of garbage in the ocean garbage patches comes from land.
What is 80%?
200
This comprises 25% of the 70 to 75 million tons of fish caught each year that are discarded due to size, species, or quality.
What is bycatch?
200
Mining operations looks for these which contain sulphide deposits.
What are active and extinct hypothermal vents?
200
The earth is covered by this percentage of saltwater.
What is 71%
300
The open water ocean system is divided into these life zones.
What are euphotic, mesopalegic, bathyal, abyssal life zones?
300
The act of sunlight breaking plastic into smaller and smaller pieces is called this.
What is photodegradation?
300
These are two of the four agencies that monitor and regulate fisheries in the State of Washington.
What are NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), National Marine Fisheries Service, The Pacific Fishery Management Council, and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
300
These are the two methods of ocean mining.
What are continuous line bucket and hydraulic suction?
300
This number of U.S. jobs are dependent on marine industries.
What is 1 in 6 (or approx. 16%)?
400
This zone produces the highest level of producers in the ocean system.
What is the eupohotic zone?
400
The North Pacific Garbage Patch or Gyre is located here.
What is between the west coast of the United States and the Hawaiian Islands and between Japan and the Hawaiian Islands?
400
These are the three most common commercial fishing practices in the world which often capture unintended marine species such as dolphins, turtles, and sea birds.
What is Long-line, trawling, and drift nets?
400
This is the greatest environmental impact created by ocean mining.
What is surface sediment plumes?
400
Oceans play these three roles in the hydrologic cycle.
What are capture/store run-off, provide water for evaporation, filter water of pollutants during evaporation?
500
Species have adapted overly large mouths and teeth, small eyes and often are bioluminescent in this zone.
What is the bathyal life zone?
500
Garbage gyres cover this much of the earth's oceans.
What is 40%?
500
This is the greatest environmental impact of ocean fishing that effects 100s of species as well as humans.
What is disruption of the food web?
500
This is the first established ocean mining operation in the world.
What is Solwara 1?
500
These two coastal systems are essential to protect against flooding, tsunamis, and erosion.