Ocean Zones
More Ocean Zones!
Hydrothermal Vents
Adaptations
Coral Reefs & More
100
The zone located between the tides
What is intertidal zone
100

The percentage of salt water on earth

What is approximately 70%
100
The zone where hydrothermal vents are found
What is the abyss?
100
Adaptation of fish in the deep ocean that causes them to light up
What is bioluminescence
100
The location of coral reefs
What is the neritic zone
200

The zone where bioluminescent animals live

What is the twilight and dark zone

200
The deepest of the ocean zones, where the ocean floor is located
What is the abyss
200
The structure built after hot minerals settle on the ocean floor
What is a chimney?
200
One characteristic of animals living in the deep ocean
What is bioluminescence/large eyes/large mouth
200
Coral reefs exist in these conditions (why do they live in their zone?)
What is sunny, light, & warm
300
The zone where most animals live
What is sunlit zone
300
The deepest parts of the ocean, which are like valleys below the ocean floor
What are trenches?
300
True or False: It is smoke, not water, that explodes from hydrothermal vents
What is FALSE! It is water
300
The reason why many intertidal animals (like sea urchins) attach to hard surfaces
What is rough waves
300
The name of coral animals
What is polyps
400
The zone located above the continental shelf, before the open ocean
What is the neritic zone?
400
Below the sunlit zone, where darkness, cold, and pressure increases
What is the twilight zone?
400
The reasons why it is so amazing that animals survive near hydrothermal vents
What is hot water temperatures, pressure, toxic chemicals
400
Coral animals eat these microscopic living things in the neritic zone
What is algae
400
Describe the amount of time it takes coral reefs to build
What is A LONG TIME! Thousands of years!
500
Part of the intertidal zone, which gets splashed by high tide
What is spray zone?
500
The third ocean zone, it is also the second to the bottom of the ocean
What is the dark zone
500
The two kinds of hydrothermal vents
What is black smoker and white smoker
500
The ability of organisms (like a starfish) to regrow a lost limb
What is regeneration
500

This is what happens when a coral animal dies

What is the hard structure(limestone) remains & continues to grow the reef

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