Pelagic Zone
What does the term pelagic mean?
Relating to the open ocean
What does the term benthic refer to?
The ocean floor/the rock at the bottom of the ocean
What does the term photic refer to?
Relating to light
What is a carnivore?
Animals that eat meat
What is the name of the man who is credited as one of the first people to chart ocean currents?
Matthew Maury
In what zone does the majority of ocean life live?
What is the region of the ocean floor where you are at the bottom along flat lands?
Abyssal Plain
What is the name of the zone where there is no light?
Aphotic Zone
What is a producer?
An organism that makes its own food.
Provide an example of a producer in an ocean environment.
Phytoplankton, cyanobacteria, algae
What does the prefix "epi" mean?
Top layer
What is the name given to the region of the ocean floor where most coral life lives and is fairly close to the surface?
Continental Shelf
What is characteristic of the animals that live in the Disphotic Zone because of the small amount of light that reaches it during the day?
They have large eyes.
What name would you give to animal that eats primarily shrimp and kelp?
An omnivore
Why do viperfish have opaque stomachs?
Because the fish that they eat glow, and if their stomachs were transparent or translucent, then other animals would be able to see it coming.
In what pelagic zone do the animals that typically glow because of the lack of light live?
Bathypelagic Zone
What is the name of the lands that jut up from the ocean floor and look like underwater hills?
Seamounts
What is the prefix used to describe the Sunlight Zone that literally translates to "good light" zone?
Eu(photic)
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
A food chain shows the flow of energy from one individual species to another individual species while a food chain shows the flow of energy throughout the entire environment.
Provide an example of an apex predator in the ocean.
Orca Whale, Sharks, etc.
What are the three names given to the deepest depths of the ocean (excluding aphotic because it is used to describe other zones too)?
Hadal Zone
Hadopelagic Zone
The Trenches
How are volcanic islands formed?
By magma welling up from beneath the earth and hardening in the water until it reaches above the waters.
What is the name of the part of the body that enables the brain to interpret the light that it receives?
Photoreceptors
What might happen when an apex predator dies?
Its prey might become to great in number causing the animals that they eat to die off which then kills off the prey of the apex predator too because they won't have anything left to eat.
Why is the United Kingdom abnormally warm compared to other countries surrounding it?
Because the Gulf Stream carries warm waters to the coasts of the UK making the arm warmer.