Ocean Floor
Ocean Habitats
Intertidal Zone
Neritic Zone/Open Ocean
Ocean Resources/Pollution
100
Waves bounced off of the ocean floor
What is sonar
100
tiny algae and animals floating in the water
What is plankton
100
Places on the edges of the ocean that are sometimes covered with water
What are tide pools
100
The zone in the ocean with the highest amount of nutrients
What is the neritic zone
100
The farming of saltwater and freshwater organisms
What is aquaculture
200
a large flat area covered with sediment and sunken remains
What is the abyssal plain
200
free swimming animals that move throughout the water column
What is nekton
200
A mixture of fresh and salt water
What is brackish water
200
A ring shaped reef that surrounds a shallow lagoon
What is an atoll
200
water, fuel and minerals are all these
What are nonliving resources
300
Mountains who's peaks don't break the surface of the water
What is seamounts
300
organisms that live exclusively on the bottom of the ocean
What are benthos
300
coastal inlets or bays where fresh and salt water mix
What are estuaries
300
a large, heavy algae that grows in parts of the neritic zone
What is kelp
300
most ocean pollution is caused by this
What are human activities
400
The deepest points in the ocean
What are trenches
400
The ocean zone farthest from the shore
What is the open ocean
400
forests of short, gnarled trees that grow well in a mixture of fresh and salt water
What are mangrove forests
400
The action of organisms producing their own light
What is bioluminescence
400
this natural occurrence can cause ocean pollution
What is weather
500
Plates moving away from each other (diverging), and magma filling in the open space to increase the size of the ocean floor
What is sea floor spreading
500
All of the feeding relationships that exist in a habitat
What is a food web
500
An area full of smelly mud where cordgrass is common
What are salt marshes
500
hot water rises out of cracks in the ocean floor
What are hydrothermal vents
500
who owns the majority of the oceans on the planet
Who is nobody
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