Vocabulary
Define this..
What do you know?
How does it go?
Explain it
100
The catching of fish at a faster rate than they can reproduce.
What is overfishing
100
the narrow ocean margin between the high-tide mark and the low-tide mark
What is intertidal zone
100
Name, describe and give an example of each of the three categories of ocean life?
What is bottom dwellers, floaters and swimmers
100
How are coral reefs created? (made of)
What is limestone
100
What causes dead zones to form?
What is bacteria using oxygen
200
microscopic floating organisms that live in water, and like plants, convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into good.
What is phytoplankton
200
a wet, swampy area that is often flooded with water
What is wetland
200
How deep does the surface zone extend down from the top of the water?
What is 650 feet
200
Explain the relationship between the lack of sun in the deep zone and how deep zone animals get their food...
What is no sun = no plants, must be predators
200
How are oil and natural gas created and mined?
What is remains of animals and pumping/drilling from playforms
300
a built-up limestone deposit formed by small ant-sized organisms called corals
What is coral reef
300
a large community of kelp, a type of seaweed that can attach to the ocean floor
What is kelp forest
300
What allows organisms to live in hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, despite the heat of the magma?
What is special bacteria
300
What allows kelp to float upright in water?
What are tiny air bubbles
300
What are some examples of estuaries?
What is bays, inlets, harbors
400
a shoreline area where fresh water form a river mixes with salt water from the ocean
What is an estuary
400
an opening in the sea floor which heated water rises and mixes with the ocean water above
What is hydrothermal vents
400
What part of the ocean contains the largest variety of ocean life?
What is near shore environment
400
In what ways does the intertidal zone change during the rise and fall of tides? (3 ways)
What is salinity, temperature, water level
400
What are some measures that have been taken to protect the global water from pollution?
Law of the Seas and EPA
500
the natural environment in which a living thing gets all that it needs to live
What is habitat
500
the portion of animals that are caught in a net and then thrown away as unwanted
What is by-catch
500
What are three negative effects of the fishing industry on the environment?
What is overfishing, by-catch and dumping
500
How does algae help a coral reef habitat?
What is produces oxygen
500
What are the major differences between salt marshes and mangrove forests.
Salt Marshes - cold and grassy Mangrove Forests - warm and shrubs/trees
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