Random Ocean Questions
What is a current?
A phytoplankton makes its own food using photosynthesis, so it is called this.
What is a producer?
This is the measure of how much salt is in ocean water.
The name of a microscopic floating ocean consumer that is named after animals.
What is zooplankton?
This is a shallow part of the ocean floor that is where we see most of the ocean life.
What is the continental shelf?
What is wind?
A zooplankton eats phytoplankton, so it is called this.
What is a consumer?
As water gets saltier, this increases.
What is density?
What is phytoplankton?
This is a steep drop on the ocean floor.
What is the continental shelf?
Most ocean organisms are found on the continental shelf because this is able to reach the bottom.
What is sunlight?
Food web arrows always follow this.
What is the flow of energy?
Flooding of freshwater from a nearby river can make the ocean have less of this.
What is salt?
These organisms such as sea stars, crabs, and sea cucumbers do not move only on the ground in the ocean.
What are nonmoving/sea floor?
This is where sediments are deposited.
What is the continental rise?
The high and low tides are caused by this.
What is the moon?
Two of these are in the wrong spots.
Phytoplankton -> Zooplankton -> Fisherman -> Tuna
What are fisherman and tuna?
This natural phenomenon causes salt to be left behind and makes water saltier.
What is evaporation?
These organisms such as fish, turtles, sharks, and whales move through the ocean in this way.
What are swimmers?
This is a vast, flat area of the deep ocean basin.
What is the abyssal plain?
As a submersible descends from the surface to the abyssal plain, the temperature and pressure change in this way.
What is temperature decrease and pressure increase?
This best describes the relationship between a whale and the small fish it eats.
What is predator and prey
This makes it difficult for humans to explore the deepest parts of the ocean.
What is pressure?
These organisms move through the water but do not move on their own.
This is caused by one crustal plate sliding under another.
What are trenches?