Continental Shelf Life
This Sea Creatures diet consists of shrimp, squid and sea turtles
What is the Coffinfish?
A major feature of the Epipelagic zone almost entirely exclusive to it, these calcium carbonate collections support a vast amount of life, generally in temperate waters.
What are coral reefs?
The global network keeping the supply chain running, yet also a large and consistent impact on the Epipelagic zone.
What is shipping? (or cargo)
One broad body type used by Epipelagic life, it allows the creature to travel through quickly and efficiently, and is also known as a streamlined body.
What is a fusiform body?
Alongside having antifreeze in its blood, this fish can also live up to a fifth of a century.
What is a Wolffish?
The edge of the Epipelagic zone, identified by the highest submerged point of the continental margin, is also known as this.
What is the Continental Shelf?
Constantly entering the ocean from all forms of human activities, this miniscule form of physical pollution can even work its way into humans due to its ingestion by sea life due to its microscopic size.
What are microplastics?
Tapering to a thinner point as it approaches the tail, this thin bridge between the tail and the body of the fish is generally seen on Epipelagic fish
What is a thin caudal peduncle?
Besides living in temperate waters from the surface to 350 meters down, this shark shares its name with the color of its environment.
What is a Blue Shark?
Certain land-based outflows which empty into the ocean, producing brackish water.
What are Tributaries?
One of the ways humans passively disrupt ocean life, unlike ocean waves, this type of pollution travels very efficiently underwater.
What is noise pollution?
A quality seen on many diatoms among other microscopic organisms, it allows them to stay suspended in the water.
What is buoyancy?
Due to its high amount of sunlight and nutrient content, the Epipelagic zone supports this percentage of the ocean’s biomass.
What is 90%?
What is the range of depth in the epipelagic zone?
What are 50 and 200?
One of its primary effects is causing sea life to move up the water column at the wrong time, and it gets its name from the substance emitted by the sun.
What is light pollution?
Crescent shaped, and seen on many fish looking to optimize their swimming, this body part connects to a fish’s caudal peduncle.
What is a Lunate Tail?
Receiving the full spectrum of sunlight, the Epipelagic zone promotes photosynthesis for this strain of microscopic organisms.
What are phytoplankton?
At this depth, the Epipelagic zone receives high amounts of this energy source, which provides the zone with this other name.
What is the Sunlight Zone?
Threatening animals such as the Wolffish in the Georges Bank, this aptly named process has driven many species to endangerment or extinction.
What is overfishing?
A feature on a number of microorganisms in the Epipelagic zone, these tiny hairs allow an organism to resist sinking further down.
What are Cilia?