Ocean review I
Are ocean currents related to wind patterns?
yes
Most of the ocean is very cold (true/false)
true
A scuba diver who finds plants is in which ocean zone?
Epipelagic
When the bath toys spilled, why did they end up in so many different locations?
Ocean currents
A submarine is in an ocean zone where the only light is produced by the creatures that live there. What zone is the submarine in?
Bathypelagic
A submarine is in an ocean area where there is no light and it is near freezing, but it is not in a trench. What ocean zone is the submarine in?
Abyssopelagic
A scuba diver has gone below the level of plants but there is still some light. What ocean zone is the scuba diver in?
Mesopelagic
Flat or gently sloping areas of the deep ocean basin floor
Abyssal plain
The swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when fluid flows past an obstacle
Eddy
Narrow depressions of the sea floor
Trenches
Largest horizontal ocean zone
Only ocean zone with plants
Epipelagic (sunlight)
Midnight ocean zone
Bathypelagic
Ocean zone with no light that takes up 3/4 of the ocean floor
Abyssopelagic
Mesopelagic
Chain of volcanic islands or mountains formed by plate tectonics
Volcanic arc
Slope of ocean floor after continental shelf
Continental slope
Horizontal ocean zone between intertidal and oceanic
Hadalpelagic (trench)
How they map the ocean floor
Horizontal ocean zone closest to the shore
Intertidal zone
Extended perimeter of each continent
Continental shelf
An underwater mountain range
Mid-ocean ridge
Large geologic basins that are below sea level
Oceanic basin
Deepest part of the ocean floor
Oceanic trenches