Ocean Characteristics
Geography
Fauna and Flora
Ocean Layers
Tides
100
The Indian Ocean is the warmest ocean in the world.
What is the warmest ocean in the world?
100
Abyssal Plain is the deepest area in the ocean.
What is the deepest area in the ocean?
100
Animals in the Twilight Zone have body lights.
What adaptation do animals living in the Twilight Zone have?
100
The trenches are the deepest zone.
What is the deepest zone?
100
A tide is the alternating rise and fall in sea level.
What is a tide?
200
The Pacific Ocean is larger than all the other oceans put together.
What is the ocean that is larger then all the other oceans beside it put together?
200
The Continental Slope has the greatest recline.
What is the area with the greatest recline called?
200
Animals in the Midnight Zone have large mouths, and bellies.
What adaptation do animals living in the Midnight Zone have?
200
The midnight zone is only half-lit.
What zone is half-lit?
200
A spring tide can occur every full moon or new moon.
When can a spring tide occur?
300
The Arctic Ocean houses the most fish.
What is the ocean that houses the most fish?
300
Trenches are found in the Abyssal Plain.
What is the area that trenches are found in?
300
Animal skeletons and decomposed plants form mud in the abyss.
What animal and plant parts form mud in the abyss?
300
The Abyssal Zone covers almost half the ocean floor.
What zone covers almost half the ocean floor?
300
There is a six-hour difference between a low tide and a high tide.
What is the time difference between a low tide and a high tide?
400
The Southern Ocean has current that could fill up the Great Lakes in 48 hours.
What is the ocean that contains the currents that could fill up the Great Lakes in 48 hours?
400
A trench is a geographical structure that appears when a plate dives under another.
How is a trench formed?
400
Animals have to survive the intense pressure, cold, and scarcity of food in the trenches.
What hardships do animals endure in the trenches?
400
The midnight zone has 1000 times more water pressure than the surface.
What zone has water pressure 1000 times more powerful than the surface?
400
A neap tide can occur when there is a 1st quarter or a 3rd quarter moon.
When can a neap tide occur?
500
The Atlantic Ocean is the saltiest ocean.
What is the saltiest ocean?
500
When a sea mountain sinks, it leaves a coral ring around it called an atoll.
What is an atoll?
500
The sunlight zone is home to the majority of plants and animals throughout the ocean.
Where do most of the ocean's plants and animals live?
500
The Sunlight Zone is the shallowest ocean zone.
What is the shallowest ocean zone?
500
High tides are lower than usual and low tides are higher than usual during a neap tide.
What happens when a neap tide occurs?
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