Ocean Floor Geography
Matter
Experimental Design and Other
Currents, Waves, Tides
Food Web
100
This is the true ocean floor.
What is the abyssal plain.
100
This is the smallest particle of matter.
What is an atom?
100
The food chain shows the flow of _____..
What is energy.
100
This is caused by the moon's gravitational pull
What is a tide.
100
Most ocean life lives in this zone.
What is the sunlight zone.
200
This is the gently sloping border area of the continent.
What is the continental shelf.
200
When two atoms join together they form this.
What is a molecule?
200
If we are testing different salt amounts to see which will suspend a golf ball better, what is the independent variable?
What is amount of salt.
200
This is a transfer of energy only - not an actual flow of water.
What is a wave.
200
Adaptations for this zone may include a light organ, very small eyes, large mouths.
What is the midnight zone?
300
This part connects the ocean floor to the continent.
What is the continental rise.
300
This is a substance that contains only one type of atom.
What is an element?
300
As the depth increases, these three things decrease. (Think pressure, sea life, light, salinity, temperature.)
What is light, temperature, amount of sea life.
300
The Gulf Stream is an example of this.
What is a surface current.
300
Ocean producers which may include phytoplankton, algae, seaweed, and other ocean plants contribute 80% of the world's _______.
What is oxygen?
400
This underwater land formation is created by a divergent plate boundary.
What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge?
400
Iced tea is an example of this (mixture or solution).
What is solution?
400
If you are testing saltiness of the water to see which one grows the most algae fastest, this is the dependent variable.
What is the amount of algae grown.
400
Deep water currents are caused by this.
What is differences in temperatures. (Hot from sea mounts and divergent plate boundaries, cold from arctic flows and melts)
400
Look at the food web on the board. What animals are predators for the squid?
What is the bluefish and mackerel?
500
This occurs at a convergent boundary and is a heat source that creates deep water currents.
What is a volcano or sea mount?
500
A stream after a rainfall with sediment flowing through the water is an example of (mixture or solution).
What is a mixture? (Because the sediment will settle)
500
If you are testing different water temperatures to see which can let certain fish live longest, these are some variables that should be kept constant.
What is the type of fish, saltiness of the water, amount of sunlight, etc.
500
What do waves and surface currents have in common?
What is they are both caused by wind.
500
Looking at the food web on the board, name one of two animals that would be the MOST affected if the snapper were to go away.
What is the squid, or the herring.
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