Exploring the Ocean
Ocean Habitats
Intertidal Zone
Neritic Zone
Open Ocean
100
Sound Navigation and Ranging.
What does sonar stand for?
100
it includes the beach and the shallow water and ends where the lowest low tide ends.
What is the intertidal zone?
100
tiny algae and animals that float in the water and are carried by waves and currents.
What is plankton?
100

the area of the neritic zone that receives sunlight

What is the photic zone?

100

the farming of fresh and salt water animals for food.

What is aquaculture?

200
a gently sloping shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward to the edge of the continent.
What is the continental Shelf?
200
it extends from the lowest low tide line to the edge of the continental shelf.
What is the neritic zone?
200
animals that live and move on the ocean floor.
What is benthos?
200

the neritic zone extends from the low tide line out to what area?

What is the edge of the continental shelf?

200
black lumps that are concentrated with metal and shells.
What are nodules?
300
the steep edge of the continent shelf that ends to the ocean floor.
What is the continental slope?
300
the area in the ocean beyond the continental shelf to the deepest part of the ocean.
What is the open-ocean zone?
300
animals that are free swimming and can move throughout the water column.
What is nekton?
300

a diverse habitat where coral animals grow on top of each other to eventually build up the reef in shallow warm water on continental shelves or around volcanic islands.

What are coral reefs?

300
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Bonus!
400
a smooth nearly flat region of the ocean floor.
What is the abyssal plain?
400

a canyon on the ocean floor 

What is a trench?

400
areas along coastal inlets or bays where fresh water from rivers mixes to make brackish water.
What are estuaries?
400

where a reef around a volcanic island is left behind after the volcanic island sinks into the ocean.

What is an atoll?

400
water, fuels, and minerals.
What are some non-living resources aquired from the ocean?
500
a continuous range of mountains that winds around the earth.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
500

an area that is considered the deepest, coldest and darkest part of the ocean

What is the deep zone?

500
when the tide goes out some water remains in depressions among the rocks or sand.
What are tide pools?
500

these grow in the cold neritic zone water where the ocean has a rocky floor.

What are the kelp forests?

500
weather that washes excessive fresh water into a body of salt water killing many animals.
What is a natural form of pollution?
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