Motion of the Ocean
The steep sloping area between the continental shelf and the continental rise
What is the continental slope?
The zone where most plant and animal life can be found.
What is: the sunlight zone?
Plankton make there own food. They have this role in the ocean ecosystem.
What are: producers?
A deep cut in the ocean floor cause by two plate colliding where one plate subducts under the other
What is an ocean trench?
Water in the midnight zone has the most salt. The amount of salt is called this.
What is: salinity?
Organisms with bioluminescence typically live in this ocean zone.
What is: the midnight zone?
The smallest particle
What is an atom?
What are the three ocean motions?
What are tides, currents, and waves?
Energy for a food web begins with this.
What is: the sun?
A combination of two things where all parts are visible and that can be easily separated.
What is: a mixture?
These cause surface ocean currents.
What is: the wind?
Long mountain chains that run along the ocean floor; formed from volcanic activity
What are mid ocean ridges or seamonts?
Bacteria and worms break down organisms and return the nutrients back into the ocean ecosystem. They have this role in the ocean food web.
What are:decomposers?
A combination of two things that cannot be easily separated
What is: a solution?
The largest underwater mountain range
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
In an ocean food web, what happens if one organism goes extinct?
The rest of the food web will fall apart due to overpopulation of some species and organisms competing for a limited food source.
A solution that where the materials are evenly dispersed.
What is: a homogeneous solution?