Ocean Floor
Ocean movements
Ocean life
Food
Potpourri
100
A) The ocean is a wide flat plain B) The ocean has mountains, plains, and ridges
What is B) The ocean has mountains, plains, and ridges
100
What are the 3 motions of the ocean
What is Tides, currents, and waves
100
What are the two types of plankton?
What is zooplankton and phytoplankton
100
The three types of organisms in a food chain
What is producers, consumers, and decomposers.
100
Two things that decrease the salinity of sea water
What is river run off and rainfall
200
The part of the ocean that plunges down to depths over two miles deep.
What is the Continental slope
200
The three things that cause currents
What is wind patterns, temperature, and salinity
200
Plants and animals that live on or near the ocean floor
What is Benthos
200
How is a food web created
What is when two or more food chains overlap
200
When sunlight evaporates the surface water this happens.
What is water has a higher salinity
300
The deepest part of the ocean
What is ocean trenches
300
The percentage of the Earth's crust covered by water.
What is 70%.
300
Animals that are strong swimmers live in the open water and middle layers called
What is Nekton
300
Feed on the decaying remains of surface plants and animals that slowly sink to the ocean floor.
What is decomposers
300
When the surface of the ocean increases in salinity what happens (2 things)
What is water becomes dense and sinks.
400
True or false The ocean floor is constantly changing
What is True-the ocean floor is constantly changing
400
Tides are caused by
What is the gravitational pull of the moon
400
Two Adaptations of animals that live in the polar regions
What is natural antifreeze and blubber
400
The producers of the ocean
What is phytoplankton
400
Phytoplankto produce their own food through
What is photosynthesis
500
The part of the ocean floor that stretches from the bottom of the continental slope down to the deep sea floor.
What is continental rise.
500
What current is responsible for bringing warm water to the east coast.
What is The Gulf Stream
500
Adaptations of fish that live in deep water below where the sunlight may reach.
What is the ability to glow.
500
Where food chains get their energy
What is from the sun
500
Algae would be an example of what part of the food chain
What is a producer
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