Earth's Oceans
Ocean Floor
The Zone
Life and Resources
Ocean Pollution
100
Bounces back
What happens to sonar when it hits the ocean floor?
100
Seamount
What is a volcanic mountain on the ocean floor?
100
Intertidal Zone
What is the shallowest zone of the benthic environment?
100
Non-living resources
What are minerals, water, and energy?
100
Renewable
What are resources that can be replenished?
200
Continental shelf
What is the area between the shoreline and the continental slope?
200
Mid-Ocean Ridge
What is a mountain chain on the ocean floor?
200
Abyssal Zone
What is the largest ecological zone of the ocean?
200
Seaweed
What is a species of alga?
200
Overfishing
What reduces fish populations?
300
Continental slope
What is the area between the continental shelf and the ocean floor?
300
Ocean Trench
What is a huge crack in the ocean floor?
300
Oceanic Zone
What is the zone covering the entire ocean floor past the continental shelf?
300
Where they live and how they swim
How are marine organisms grouped?
300
Nonpoint -source pollution
What is pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a single, specific site?
400
Sodium Chloride
What is the salt called in the ocean?
400
Continental Rise
What is the base of the continental slope?
400
Hadal Zone
What is the deepest benthic zone?
400
Organisms that swim actively in the open water.
What is nekton?
400
Point-source pollution
What is pollution that comes from a specific site or place?
500
71%
What is the percentage of the Earth's surface covered by water?
500
Sonar, piloted vessels, robotic vessels, and satellites
What are the 4 ways scientist study the ocean floor?
500
Neritic Zone
What is the zone that covers the continental shelf?
500
Plankton
What are organisms that float or drift freely near the ocean's surface?
500
Clean Water Act or the U.S. Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act
What is one political measure to control local pollution in the water ways?
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