Economics Vocabulary
Ocean Vocabulary
Text Structure
Ocean Layers
100

when people depend on each other for goods and services

What is interdependence?

100

an animal being hunted, caught, and eaten by another animal

What is a prey?

100

An ocean is a kind of habitat, that are large, open seas. The ocean is full of life and has 3 main layers. 

What is describing?

100

the uppermost ocean layer

What is the sunlit zone?

200
something that a producer makes that you can buy at the store

What is a good?

200

area where sea meets land

What is a coast?

200

Baleen whales are huge. However toothed whales are small. 

What is compare and contrast?

200

cold and pitch dark

What is the midnight zone?

300

someone that pays for a good or a service

What is a consumer? 

300

the top layer of something

What is a surface?

300

Garbage has spread in the entire ocean habitat. 

What is problem?

300

You will find many sea turtles eating sea plants in this zone. 

What is the sunlit layer? 

400

the desire or interest of customers to buy or use something

What is demand?

400

the part that allows ocean animals to breathe

What are gills?

400

Fish and birds are eating the garbage. As a result, many of these animals are dying.

What is cause and effect?

400
largest ocean zone

What is the midnight layer?

500

When people work for others

What is a service?

500

made up of tiny animals called coral and sea plants

What are coral reefs?

500

Whales and dolphins are both mammals. 

What is compare?

500

An adaptation deep-sea animals have to give off light in the midnight layer.

What is bioluminescence?