Vocabulary
The Zones
Plants and Animals
Resources and Pollution
100
A technology that uses sound waves to investigate the ocean.
What is sonar
100
The ocean is divided into these 3 areas or zones.
What are Intertidal zone, Neritic zone, and Open-Ocean zone?
100
Kelp forests grow in this zone
What is the Neritic Zone
100
Most ocean pollution comes from the _________.
What is a the land?
200
A coastal inlet or bay in which freshwater from rivers mixes with salty ocean water is called an ___________.
What is an estuary
200
The area that stretches from the highest high-tide line on land out to the point on the continental shelf exposed by the lowest low tide is called the ___________ zone.
What is the intertidal zone
200
Benthos are organisms that live on the ____________.
What is on the ocean floor?
200
Most of the world’s major fisheries are found near ________.
What is the coast?
300
A deep canyon in the ocean floor is called a(n) ___________.
What is a trench?
300
The part of the ocean that extends from the low-tide line to the edge of the continental shelf is called the ________ zone.
What is the neritic zone
300
Free-swimming animals that can move throughout the water column are called __________.
What is Nekton.
300
The richest deposits of oil and natural gas are often located on the __________.
What are the continental shelves?
400
Organisms in the deep ocean that produce their own light are called _______.
What is bioluminescent
400
The deepest, darkest area of the ocean beyond the edge of the continental shelf is the _________ zone.
What is the open-ocean zone
400
The most common plant in a salt marsh is ____________.
What is cord grass?
400
Algae, sponges, crabs, fish and seaweed are examples of __________.
What are "living resources taken from the ocean"?
500
The feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. NOTE: organisms are living things so, both plants and animals can be called organisms.
What is a food web?
500
The open ocean zone is divided into three other parts that are sometimes called the water column. These parts are the surface zone, the transition zone, and the deep ocean zone. The only part of the open ocean that receives enough sunlight to support the growth of algae is the __________ zone.
What is the surface zone.
500
Coastal wetlands that feature short, gnarled trees with arching prop roots are called ____________.
What are Mangrove forests?
500
These cancer causing chemicals were man-made and are affecting the Killer Whales (Orcas) in Puget Sound.
What are PCBs?
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