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 neritic zone extends from the low tide line to what area .

What is the edge of the continental shelf?

100

what is the only part of the open ocean that receives sunlight?.

What is the surface zone?

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 shallow water area of the neritic zone that receives sunlight is called what zone.

What is photic zone?

200

this zone is where the water starts to get darker and colder

What are the transition zone?

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

name 2 animals that live in the open ocean

whales, octopus, angler fish

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

this is hot water that rises out of cracks in the ocean floor and heated by magma

What are hydrothermal vent

500
a continuous range of mountains that winds around the earth.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
500

the darkest and coldest part of the ocean where organisms use bio luminescence

What is deep ocean?

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 neretic waters where the ocean floor is rocky.

What are kelp forests?

500

why is the deep ocean like a desert?

It receives no sunlight and has very few organisms

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