Motion of the Ocean
A disturbance seen on the surface of water usually caused by wind
What is a wave?
What animals are considered producers and consumers?
What is: Producers are phytoplankton and seaweed. Consumers are all the animals.
How do you read a food web?
What are: The arrow points to who is eating.
What effects the salinity of the water?
What is: Depth, evaporation, melting and runoff.
Where is the darkest, coldest, and the most pressure in the ocean?
What are: trenches
What would happen if a part of the food web would die out?
What is: the animals that rely on those animals would be effected.
What are ocean currents best used for?
What is: Navigation Routes for ships carrying goods.
What happens with the animals when you go deeper?
What is: There are less animals and animals that often produce their own light. (angler fish)
What are non-moving creatures?
What is: coral, seaweed
What effects ocean currents?
What is: water temperature, types of water, plants and animals.
Which of these is a current?
A) The Pacific Ocean
B) The Gulf Stream
C) The Mississippi River
D) The Amazon River
What is: B) The Gulf Stream
The part of the ocean that you would stand on when you are at the beach?
What is: The continental shelf
What are floating animals?
What are: phytoplankton, plankton
What part of ocean water do the animals need to survive?
What is: The gasses dissolved in the water.
What is the best way to read a current map?
What is: follow the arrows showing the currents.
The feature that comes before the abyssal plain but after the continental slope.
What is: the continental rise
What are swimming animals?
What is: squids, sharks, fish
What is the ocean floor covered in?
What is: sand, mud, rocks.