DEFINITIONS
kelp and coral
surface zone
deep zone
Fish
100
The narrow ocean margin between between the high tide and the low tide mark
What is the intertidal zone
100
Large communities of seaweed, creating habitats for some animals.
What are kelp forests?
100
The two types of plankton
What is phtoplankton and zooplankton
100
The living things that cannot live in the deep zone.
What is plants
100
catching fish at a faster rate than they can reproduce
What is overfishing
200
an enviornment that has all the necessary requirments for an organism to live.
What is a habitat
200
The hard rock that corals use on organisms when they die.
What is limestone
200
Microscopic floating organisms that live near the surface
What is phytoplankton
200
Where the deep zone lies
What is under the surface zone
200
another word for by-catch
What is by-kill
300
awet, swampy area that are often flooded with water
What are wetlands
300
The Reef in Australia where this coral reef is 2000 kilometers long.
What is the Great Barrier Reef
300
What's right below the surface zone
What is the deep zone
300
A type of predater in the deep zone
What is anglerfish, gulper eel, etc.
300
The percentage of fish caught and thrown out
What is 30%
400
Where the fresh water from rivers mixes with with saltwater from the ocean in shorelines
What are estuaries
400
What kelp needs to provide food and oxygen
What is sunlight
400
What fish use to keep afloat
What is an air bladder
400
Openings in Earths crust
What is hydrothermal vents
400
Catching fish and throwing them away as of unwanted
What is by-catch
500
Built up limestone deposits formed by large colonies of ant-sized organisms.
What are coral reefs
500
The special relationship that coral relies on.
What is algae
500
Inhabitants of the surface zone must keep from doing this
What is sinking
500
the people and date Who discovered hydrothermal vents
What is marine biologists in 1977
500
the farming of fish, and freshwater.
What is aquaculture
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