Characteristics
The reason lakes and oceans have different marine life.
What is one has salt?
A major current that affects the East Coast of North America and warms Europe affected by salinity, temperature, and wind.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The level of the ocean with the most marine life.
What is the continental shelf?
Look at your food web. These organisms eat krill.
What are fish, leopard seal, birds, baleen whale, penguins, squid?
The Mediterranean Sea has more salinity than the Atlantic Ocean. This means the Mediterranean Sea is -
What is saltier?
Tides are affected by this.
What is the moon's gravity and the Earth's rotation?
The deepest part of any ocean.
What is a trench?
This level of the ocean where we would find algae, a producer that makes its own food.
What is the continental shelf?
True or False: The ocean floor is like the surface of the Earth, with mountains, plains, and ridges.
What is true?
The current off the coast of Virginia that would help a sailor reach Europe.
What is the Gulf Stream?
Made of mud, sand, and rocks between the continental shelf and continental rise.
What is the continental slope?
Look at your food web. This organism is a producer.
What is phytoplankton?
The measure of salt in water.
What is salinity?
The size of the waves at the beach seem larger in the afternoon than they did in the morning because of increasing -
What is wind speed?
This happens as you descend from the continental shelf to the abyssal plain.
What is cold temperature and high pressure?
The arrows on a food web mean -
What is energy goes into?
This happens to the temperature as you move to greater depths.
What is decreases?
The reason a sand castle might disappear from one afternoon to the morning.
What is the changing tide?
The temperature where you will find more marine life:
20 degrees C
14 degrees C
11 degrees C
3 degrees C
What is 20 degrees C?
Look at your food web. These organisms eats fish.
What are squid, other birds, leopard seal, penguins, and elephant seal?