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Marine Life Zones
Marine Life
Characteristics
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Marine life zones that are defined by depth
What are the pelagic, benthic, and abyssal?
100
Marine organisms are characterized by
What is where they live and how they move?
100
Key characteristic of the EUPHOTIC zone
What is photosynthesis?
100
Area where the land and ocean meet and overlap
What is the intertidal zone?
100
Density is
What is mass per unit volume?
200
Marine life zones that are defined by distance from shore
What are the intertidal, neritic, and oceanic?
200
Organisms that live in or on the ocean floor
What are benthos organisms?
200
Three factors used to divide the ocean into distinct marine life zones
What is the availability of sunlight, distance from shore, and water depth
200
Area beyond the continental shelf
What is the oceanic zone?
200
Organism that directly or indirectly provides food for the majority of organisms
What is algae?
300
Ocean zone that is characterized by high water pressure, low temperatures, and no sunlight
What is the abyssal zone?
300
Organisms that drift with ocean currents
What are plankton?
300
A characteristic that distinguishes nekton from plankton
What is independent movement?
300
Seaward from the low-tide line and covers the gently sloping continental shelf
What is the neritic zone
300
Characteristic that distinguishes the photic zone from the aphotic zone
What is sunlight?
400
Open ocean of any depth
What is the pelagic zone?
400
How is live supported in zones without sunlight for photosynthesis?
What is by using chemicals from hydrothermal vents?
400
In addition to salinity. what factor affects the density of seawater?
What is temperature?
400
Sea-bottom surface regardless of distance from shore
What is the benthic zone?
400
Organisms that live in the ocean
What is marine life?
500
Ocean zone where sunlight penetrates
What is the photic zone?
500
The neritic zone is rich with marine life because
What is because conditions are ideal for photosynthesis?
500
The lowest density water is found in the abyssal zone, the transition zone or the surface mix zone
What is the surface mix zone
500
The use of light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into energy-rich glucose molecules
What is photosynthesis?
500
The odds you will pass this test
What is HIGHLY LIKELY?