Oceans 1
This percent of this earth is covered by ocean water.
What is 71%?
The edge of the continent closest to the shoreline.
What is the continental shelf?
The rise and fall of sea water on land.
What is ocean tides?
Animals that swim using their bodies to move around.
What is swimming organisms?
Animals that drift along with the water.
What is floating organisms?
There are ___ major oceans.
What is 5?
Where to ocean floor dips down far below the shelf.
What is the continental slope?
Ocean tides are caused by these.
What is the pull of the moon and Earth's rotation?
Creatures that are attached to the ocean floor.
What is nonmoving floor dwellers?
Where something lives.
What is dweller?
The 5 major oceans.
The bottom of the continental slope where the soil settles.
What is the continental rise?
The components of ocean water.
What is gases, water, and dissolved solids?
The movement of ocean water.
What is ocean currents?
Most marine life lives in this zone.
What is the upper zone?
Anything related to water.
What is aquatic?
Any flat sections of the ocean floor.
What is abyssal plain?
The amount of dissolved salt in water.
What is salinity?
Ocean currents are caused by these.
What is the wind and water temperature?
Animals in this zone must survive with no sunlight.
What is the bottom zone?
Something found or made in the ocean like plants or animals.
What is marine?
A narrow, very deep section far below the ocean floor.
What is trench?
The four things that change the amount of salt.
What is evaporation, depth of the water, melting icebergs, and runoff from the land?
This current impacts the area where we live.
What is The Gulf Stream?
There is not a lot of sunlight in this zone, so animals must adapt to their environment.
What is the middle zone?