Vertical Pelagics
The number of vertical zones in the ocean
What are 5?
This light zone is where NO light penetrates
What is aphotic?
The bottom zone is also known as this zone
What is benthic?
These organisms are usually found adrift in ocean currents
What are plankton?
True or False: The major of nekton are invertebrates (lack a backbone)
What is false?
The top vertical layer in which sunlight penetrates
What is the epipelagic?
The photic zone is divided into this many zones
What is 2?
This zone is also known as the splash zone because the water splashes, but does not remain submerged
What is the supralittoral zone?
The Portuguese man-of-war is part of this subgroup of plankton
What are neuston?
Epiflora include animals such as crabs, which live here
What is on the ocean floor?
The deepest water in the ocean trenches is located in this bottom zone
What is hadalpalegic?
True or False: The dysphotic zone is well-lit during the day
What is false?
The littoral zone is found between these two marks
What are high tide and low tide marks?
Most of the predators in the sea are part of this marine lifestyle group
What are nekton?
True or False: Nekton can include small invertebrates up to large whales
What is true?
This region is also known as the midnight zone
What is the bathlypelagic?
This light zone is found between the euphotic and aphotic zones
What is dysphotic?
The continental zone is the area beyond this bottom zone
What is the littoral zone?
Organisms that live on the bottom of the ocean are called this
Sea grasses that live on the ocean floor are part of this benthos group
What is epiflora?
Only 1% of sunlight can reach this twilight zone
What is mesopelagic?
90% of all marine organisms live in this zone
What is the photic zone?
True or False: The benthic zone is divided based on the depth moving from the shore to the open ocean
What is true?
Organisms that swim are referred to as this
What are nekton?
The pelagic zone is divided into these two HORIZONTAL zones:
What are the neritic and the oceanic?