Ocean Floor
The part of the ocean with the most life.
What is the Continental Shelf?
A factor that affects the size of waves.
What is how hard the wind blows?
The part of the ocean that has the most sunlight.
What is the Sunlit Zone?
Upper sunlit zones.
Where do most organisms live?
The ocean food chain begins with this.
What are producers?
The mostly flat deep part of the ocean.
What is the Abyssal Plain?
The way to measure how far apart waves are.
What is wavelength?
The part of the ocean that doesn't have a lot of sunlight.
What is the Twilight Zone?
The amount of salt in the ocean.
What is salinity?
This eats the producers.
What are consumers?
The part of the ocean that is made of sediments.
What is the Continental Rise?
The top of the wave.
What is the crest?
The part of the ocean that doesn't have any sunlight.
What is the Midnight Zone?
These are caused by the pull of the moon's gravity.
What are tides?
This eats dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?
The deepest part of the ocean.
What are Trenches?
The bottom of the wave.
What is the trough?
The ocean movements that are caused by wind, temperature, and salinity.
What are ocean currents?
This could cause erosion.
What are waves?
These are the key types of organisms in a food web.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
The parts of the ocean floor.
What are Continental Shelf, Continental Slope, Continental Rise, Abyssal Plain, and trenches?
Waves only show up here.
What is the sunlit zone?
This affects where organisms live.
What is depth?
Organisms that like warmer water go here.
What is near the Equator?
An example: "The phytoplankton make food from the sun and are eaten by the zooplankton which are eaten by the fish which are eaten by the whale."
What is an ocean food web?