Parts of the Ocean Floor
Part of the Ocean that begins at the edge of the Continental shelf and plunges down to the depths of over two miles.
What is the Continental Slope?
Marine Organisms are divided into these three groups.
What are plankton, benthos, and nekton?
Oceans cover this much of Earth's surface.
What is 70 percent?
Tides are a result of the gravitational pull from this object.
What is the moon?
Name a way people can positively impact the ocean.
Cleaning up garbage, reducing pollution, etc.
This part of the Ocean is the flat area of the Ocean Floor.
What is the abyssal plain?
What is the Continental shelf?
Oceans are a mixture of these 3 things.
What is water, air, and salt (sodium chloride)?
Ocean currents can be caused by:
What are wind patterns, water temperature, and salinity?
Name a way people negatively impact the oceans.
Polluting, littering, pesticides, etc.
This part of the Ocean is gently sloping that connects the steep walls of the Continental Slope to the bottom of the Ocean Floor.
What is the Continental Rise?
Phytoplankton is considered a ___ in the food chain.
What is a producer?
True or False: The ocean's salinity can vary.
True
True or False: Oceans are not always in motion
False
Positive or Negative: Building new factories
Negative
The part of the Ocean that is very deep and similar to canyons on land.
What are Ocean trenches?
This organism produces most of Earth's oxygen.
What is phytoplankton?
Dense water = ____ salinity
What is higher?
This Ocean current moves from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean, causing warmer ocean temps in the Fall.
What is the Gulf Stream?
Positive or Negative: Organizing a River Clean-Up
Positive
This part of the Ocean begins at the shoreline and gently slopes underwater to an average depth of about 430ft.
What is the Continental Shelf?
What are dissolved gases?
This increases as you go deeper in the ocean.
What is pressure?
Currents move like flowing rivers in this type of pattern.
What is circular?
Positive or Negative: Repopulating a species
Positive