Ocean Features
What type of water is ocean water?
Salt water
How much of Earth’s surface is covered by water?
What is 75%
What is the start of the food web?
a producer
What is the scientific word for the study of oceans?
What is oceanography
What currents carry warm water to Europe? This current is the closest to us.
What is the Gulf Stream Current
What is the flattest part of the ocean?
What is the abyssal plain
What is a mixture?
when compounds are loosely combined without a chemical reaction.
What do the arrows represent?
The transfer of energy
Where do we mostly see ocean life (think of ocean features)?
What is the continental shelf.
What is an atom?
Basic building block for all matter
What is a deep cut in the ocean floor near the abyssal plain?
What is an ocean trench
As the depth increases, this decreases.
What is temperature.
_______ is a natural system in which living and nonliving things interact
An ecosystem
What zone of the ocean would you find most ocean life?
What is the measure of dissolved salts in ocean water?
What is salinty
Which zone gets the most sunlight?
Sunlight zone
What is a solution?
a mixture when one substance is evenly mixed in another one.
What is an example of a decomposer?
Bacterium
A dolphin uses this to locate food.
What is echolocation.
What is one example of a compound?
Carbon dioxide, water, sodium chloride
What are the parts of the ocean floor in order?
Contintental Shelf, Slope, Rise, Abyssal Plain
as the depth of the ocean increases what happens to the pressure?
pressure increases
When food webs depend on the organisms that form it.
Interdependence
What forms the base of an ocean food chain?
What are phytoplankton
What causes surface currents vs deep water currents
Surface - wind causes
Deep - when cold water and warm water mix. The warm water rises and the cold water sinks, causing a deep ocean current.