Ocean Layers
Contains flourishing plant life and shallow water
What is the continental shelf?
Currents carry this temperature of water
What is warm and cold water?
Seawater is denser than freshwater because it contains this
What is salt?
Fish living near the ocean floor are strange looking because of this
blue whale
What is mammal?
Contains long mountain ranges called oceanic ridges and is at the bottom of the ocean
What is the floor?
Ocean currents are moved mostly by this
What is wind?
Waves are caused by these
What are winds?
This fish is caught for the oil in its liver
What is cod?
oyster
What is an In.?
Contains deep trenches at its base
What is the Continental Slope?
The Humboldt current brings mostly this temperature of water to areas
What is cold water?
The deepest spot in the ocean is called this and is located in this ocean
What is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific?
This fish has huge winglike fins which make it look like it flies through water
What is the manta ray?
porpoise
What is a mammal?
Contains almost all of the fish that are caught and to be sold for food and contains rich oil fields
What is the Continental Shelf?
Knowing about ocean currents can help people using sea travel easier and quicker (True or False)
What is true?
What is sand?
This kind of whale is hunted for its oil and ambergris
What is the sperm whale?
white shark
What is a fish?
Contains underwater volcanoes
What is the floor?
Matthew Maury used these in bottles to help perform his experiments about ocean currents
What are messages?
This is the temperature that seawater freezes at
What is 28.5 degrees F?
This fish is known as a man-eater
What is the White Shark?
sponge
What is an In.?