Ocean Floor
Ocean Floor 2
Food Webs
Ocean Zones 1
Ocean Zones 2
100
the border of the continent that is below the water and slopes gradually away from the shore
What is the continental shelf?
100
True or False: the ocean floor is flat.
False: the abyssal plain has many sea mounts and ocean ridges
100
organisms that are incapable of swimming against the movements of the water
What is plankton?
100
The zone that only goes to 200 meters deep.
What is the sunlight zone?
100
True or False: strong swimmers move in between the zones
True
200
the steep slope down to the ocean floor
What is the continental slope?
200
Small volcanoes along the abyssal plain.
What are sea mounts?
200
a natural system in which living and nonliving things interact
What is an ecosystem?
200
The zone that goes as deep as 1000 meters.
What is twilight zone?
200
Most producers are found in this zone.
What is sunlight zone?
300
the transition area where the continent ends and the ocean floor begins
What is continental rise?
300
The area of the ocean floor between the USA and Europe made from a divergent boundary.
What is the mid-Atlantic ridge?
300
all of the interconnected and overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
300
The average temperature of this zone is 4 ̊C.
What is the midnight zone?
300
can be categorized based on how they move through the ocean water
What are organisms in the ocean environment?
400
a flat, smooth surface made of sediment from runoff of the continents and the surface of the water
What is the abyssal plain?
400
True or False: tectonic plate activity does not affect the ocean floor.
False
400
make the energy that all other organisms in the ocean need to survive
What is phytoplankton?
400
True or False: The pressure decreases the deeper into the ocean one goes.
False
400
True or False: there are no organisms in the abyssal plain.
False
500
deep cuts in the ocean floor found near the abyssal plain
What are ocean trenches?
500
What are the Continental Margins?
They are the continental shelf, continental slope, and continental rise.
500
consumers can be found in primarily in this zone
What is sunlight zone?
500
True or False: The organisms living in the midnight zone have special adaptations.
True
500
These move with ocean currents and don't usually go between zones.
What are plankton?
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