Ocean Water
Most abundant elements in Ocean Water
What is Hydrogen and Oxygen?
Coldest zone in the Ocean.
What is the Deep Sea Zone?
Large whales
What is the Bathyal Zone?
More plentiful near the shore and coasts.
What is sunlight and minerals?
What is the Shore Zone?
Most common type of salt in the ocean.
What is Sodium Chloride?
Average Sea Depth.
What 4,150 Meters deep?
Sharks.
What is the neritic zone?
What is Sea Lettuce?
Deepest zone in the ocean.
What is the hadal zone?
Average salinity of ocean water.
What is 35 parts per thousand?
Ocean temperature zone with greatest range.
What is Thermocline Zone?
Microscopic marine life.
What is Plankton?
Really tall plant.
What is giant kelp?
I divide the neritic and bathyal zones.
What is the Continental Shelf?
There is lower salinity at the mouths of the Amazon, the Congo, and Mississippi Rivers. Explain why.
What is dilution by the volume of water from the rivers?
The temperature is colder when you get deeper. Name one major contributing factor for this.
What is the less sunlight?
Sea cucumbers and brittle stars.
What is the abyssal zone?
Most abundant phytoplankton.
What is diatoms?
The deepest seaweed is found here.
What is the Bathyal Zone?
There are three sulfurous compounds in ocean water, name one of them.
What is Potassium Sulfate, Calcium Sulfate, or Magnesium Sulfate?
Submarines have to handle the high pressure in the ocean. Name two ways that their makers compensate for the high pressure.
What is strong materials and a pressurized interior?
Oyster
What is Neritic?
microscopic plankton with tails.
What is dinoflagellates?
First zone with no sunlight.
What is the abyssal zone?