From the low tide line to the end of the Continental Shelf.
What is the Neritic Zone?
100
Region of open sea beyond the edge of the Continental Shelf.
What is Pelagic Zone?
100
Extends from the base of one Continental Slope to the base of the opposite Continental Slope.
What is Abyssal Zone?
100
What are the two types of Plankton?
What is Phytoplankton and Zooplankton?
100
serve as a base of the open ocean food webs.
What is microscopic algae?
200
Collections of generations of dead and living coral animals that also serve as homes to fish, mollusks, and algae.
What is Coral Reefs?
200
From top to down includes 3 zones.
What is photic, disphotic and aphotic?
200
Dead or dying plants and animals from the Photic Zone.
What is Marine Snow?
200
What are the 5 unique species in the Aphotic Zone?
What is Angler fish, Cuttlefish, Giant squid, Gulper eel, Vampire squid?
200
Subject to rapid and extreme changes in salinity and temperature and is in the intertidal zone
What is tide pools?
300
Collections of brown algae anchored to the rocky bottom. Major habitat for sea urchins and sea otters. Serve as a camouflage for vulnerable species, especially new young.
What is Kelp forests?
300
Animals that are free to swim throughout the water column.
What is Nekton?
300
Geysers on the seafloor that continuously gush super-hot, mineral-rich water that supports a diverse community of organisms.
What is Hydrothermal vents?
300
This fish lives in the Benthic Zone and stays on or near the sea floor.
What is the ground fish?
300
In what zone has animals that have thin bodies that help them hide from predators.
What is the disphotic zone?
400
Serve as nurseries for marine animals. Mixture of fresh water and salt water.
What is Estuaries?
400
Bottom dwelling, deep-sea creatures.
What is Benthos?
400
produce food by Chemo-synthesis using chemicals in the mineral-rich water to produce food.
What is Bacteria?
400
This type of plankton is plant like.
What is Phytoplankton?
400
Name the three unique ecosystems in the Pelagic zone.
What is Benthic zone, abyssal zone and hydrothermal vents?
500
Develops a mutualistic relationship with the algae living inside it.
What is Coral?
500
Area of sea-floor spreading between North America and Europe.
What is the Mid Ocean Ridge?
500
Name the 8 unique species in the Abyssal Zone.
What is Bacteria, tube worms, ghost crabs, Zoarcid fish, snails, shrimp, clams, octopus?
500
This type of plankton is animal like.
What is Zooplankton?
500
In what zone do animals have very dense, flat bodies, negative buoyancy, no swim bladder and bury themselves to wait for food to fall down or to strike at prey above.