Pelagic Zone
Photic Zone
Dysphotic Zone
Abyssal Zone
Neritic Zone
100
Region of open sea beyond the edge of the _______
What is the Continental Shelf
100
Located in the uppermost area of this zone
What is The Pelagic zone
100
The Dysphotic zone is __________
What is Mid Pelagic
100
The Abyssal zone is beneath this
What is The Open Ocean Zone
100
The Neritic is located in between....
What is the Low Tide Line and The Continental Shelf
200
These animals are free to swim throughout the water
What are Nekton
200
Receives enough sunlight to permit _______
What is Photosynthesis
200
__________ and available light decrease with depth
What is Temperature
200
This Zone receives none of this thing
What is LIGHT
200
This penetrates throughout the top and bottom of the Neritic zone
What is Sunlight
300
These are deeper than Mt. Everest is tall in the Pelagic Zone
What are trenches
300
Algae produces 90% of this in the Photic Zone
What is breathable oxygen
300
This increases with depth
What is pressure
300
The Abyssal Zone is occupied by these.
What are Benthos
300
Collections of brown algae anchored to the rocky bottom
What are Kelp forests
400
The Pelagic zone from top to bottom includes these 3 zones.
What are the photic, dysphotic, and aphotic zones.
400
The Photic zone is usually the first 200m more or less depending on this.
What is Water clarity
400
The 4 unique species in this zone
What is the octopus, squid, viper fish, hatchet fish
400
Ground fish is this fishes nickname
What are benthic fish
400
Serve as nurseries for marine organisms, filters for materials entering from rivers
What are Estuaries
500
Contains these bottom dwelling sea creatures
What are Benthos
500
These are the 5 unique species in this zone
What is algae, phytoplankton, zooplankton, ocean fish, jelly fish sea turtles
500
Fish in this zone are these colors
What is red and black
500
The Abyssal zone starts at the end of this.
What is an Intertidal zone
500
Collections of generations of dead and living coral animals that also serve as homes to fish
What is The Coral Reef
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