The Watershed
Ecosystems and food webs
The Ocean Zones
The Water Cycle
The Ocean Floor
100
Moves downhill until it ultimately hits the lowest point on Earth
What is the direction water moves in the watershed
100
The living parts in an ecosystem
What is biotic
100
Includes 3 zones that vary based on their depth
What is the open ocean zone
100
Were the water cycle begins
What is the ocean
100
A mountain on the ocean floor that is completely under water
What are sea mounts
200
There are 18 of these
What are U.S River Basins/ Watersheds
200
Consumers are
What are Heterotrophs
200
The 3 zones of the ocea
What is Nerictic zone, Intertidial zone, and Open ocean zone
200
4 main parts of the water cycle
What is condensation, evaporation, percipitation, and transpiration
200
Passes through all of earth's oceans
What is the mid-ocean ridge
300
North Carolina is part of this River Basin/ Watershed
What is the South Atlantic- Gulf river basin/ watershed
300
The way energy is transferred form plants to animals
What are Food chains
300
Extends below the surface zone for about 1 kilometer
What is transition zone of the open ocean
300
The process by which a vapor becomes a liquid
What is condensation
300
The number of plates earth crust is broken into
What is 14
400
The location were water runoff begins
What are Headwaters
400
Marine animals capable of moving on their own
What are Nekton
400
An area of protected waters where human interaction with the natural habitat is limited
What are sanctuaries
400
The lack of percipitation for a long period of time
What is drought
400
Smooth, nearly flat region of the ocan floor which is covered with thick layerrs of mud and silt
What is abyssal plain
500
May creat bodies of water like streams or infiltrate (be absorbed) into the ground and become groundwater
What is water runoff
500
Eat phytoplankton and are links to larger consumers in a food chain
What are benthonic organisms
500
Grow in Nerictic zones, have cold water, and a solid, rocky bottom to root in and are found along the Pacific coast from Alaska to Mexico
What is a kelp forest
500
What the amount of water on Earth does as time goes by, and water goes through the water cycle again an again
What is stays the same
500
"Dividing line" between the rock of the continent and the rock of the ocean floor
What is the continental slope
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