Ocean Zones
This zone is closest to the surface where sunlight can reach.
What is the sunlight zone?
This large mammal breathes air but lives its whole life in the ocean.
What is a whale?
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This type of plantlike organism is the main food for many ocean animals.
What is phytoplankton?
This book of the Bible says, “The sea is his, for he made it.”
What is Psalm 95?
Most of the ocean’s life is found in this zone.
What is the sunlight (or euphotic) zone?
These animals have eight arms and can change color to blend in.
What is an octopus?
These undersea mountains are formed by volcanic activity.
What are seamounts?
This large seaweed forms underwater forests along coasts
What is kelp?
God gave these amazing creatures a built-in compass to migrate thousands of miles.
What are sea turtles?
This zone is pitch black and very cold, with animals that make their own light.
What is the midnight zone?
This type of fish has a built-in “light” on its head to lure prey.
What is an anglerfish?
This long chain of mountains runs through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
Algae use this process to make their own food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
God designed this animal to filter water and eat tiny plankton through its baleen.
What is a blue whale?
This term describes animals that glow in the dark deep under the sea.
What is bioluminescence?
This marine reptile comes ashore only to lay eggs.
This marine reptile comes ashore only to lay eggs.
This word means a deep crack or valley in the ocean floor
What is a trench
Coral reefs depend on this tiny algae that lives inside coral polyps.
What is zooxanthellae?
This verse reminds us that all creatures of the sea praise the Lord.
What is Psalm 148:7?
This is the deepest ocean zone, found in trenches.
What is the hadal zone?
This ocean animal is actually a colony of tiny creatures called polyps.
This ocean animal is actually a colony of tiny creatures called polyps.
.This is the force that moves ocean water in a regular pattern
What are currents?
This term refers to all floating plants and animals in the ocean
.What is plankton?
The beauty and order of ocean life show this truth about God.
What is His creativity and power in creation?