Intertidal Zone
(3.05)
Neritic Zone
(3.05)
Pelagic Zone
(3.05)
Benthic Zone
(3.05)
Other Zones
(3.05-3.06)
100
From the low tide line to the high tide line.
Where is the Intertidal Zone?
100
This ecosystem contains brackish water and has buffer zones to absorb storm surges.
What is an Estuary?
100
The three zones in the Pelagic Zone.
What is the photic zone, the dysphotic zone, and the aphotic zone?
100
This is the slant leading down to the Abyssal Plain.
What is the Continental Slope?
100
Hydrothermal vents are found in this zone.
What is the Abyssal Zone?
200
These cause Intertidal ecosystems to be subject to rapid and extreme changes in salinity and temperature.
What are Tide Pools?
200
There is a famous one of these off the coast of Australia and provides a home to mollusks, crustaceans, and algae.
What is a Coral Reef?
200
The flat sea floor beyond the continental shelf.
What is the Abyssal Plain?
200
The animals along the Benthic Zone.
What are Benthos?
200
The top layer of the Pelagic Zone also known as the Sunlit Zone.
What is the Photic Zone?
300
3 species native to the Intertidal Zone.
What are crabs, urchins, and barnacles? (may also include sea stars, anemones, snails, and mussels)
300
Collections of brown algae anchored to the bottom of the ocean.
What is a Kelp Forest?
300
This is the name of plant-like plankton.
What is Phytoplankton?
300
The Benthic Zone starts at the end of this zone.
What is the Intertidal Zone?
300
This ocean zone is located on the ocean floor, and can range from being extremely shallow to extremely deep.
What is the Benthic Zone?
400
The Intertidal Zone is located before this ocean zone.
What is the Neritic Zone?
400
This marine ecosystem has a mutualistic relationship with algae.
What is Coral?
400
Some animals that live in the Aphotic Zone make their own light with this.
What is Bioluminescence?
400
The decomposing matter that many fish living along the Benthic Zone eat.
What is Marine Snow?
400
This ocean zone extends from the bottom of the Photic Zone to a depth of about 3300 meters.
What is the Dysphotic Zone?
500
Another name for the Intertidal Zone.
What is the Littoral Zone?
500
These types of organisms are constantly found in the Intertidal Zone.
What are Commercial Fish?
500
This is another name for a Hydrothermal Vent.
What is a Black Smoker?
500
Benthic fish that stay on or near the bottom of the sea floor.
What are Groundfish?
500
4 unique species in the Abyssal Zone.
What are bacteria, tube worms, and ghost crabs. (Could also include Zoarcid fish, snails, shrimp, clams, and octopus.
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