Ocean Floor
The part of the ocean floor that borders a continent.
What is the continental shelf?
Tides, waves, and currents
What are the basic motions of the ocean?
This is about how much of Earth is covered by oceans.
What is 70%?
Producers that live near the surface get their energy from this.
What is the sun?
This increases as you go deeper into the ocean
What is pressure?
The part of the ocean floor where you play and fish.
What is the continental shelf?
The cause of waves.
What is wind?
The beginning of every food chain.
What is the sun?
Sun -> phytoplankton -> fish -> seal -> shark -> sea star
What is an example of an ocean food chain?
This decreases as you go deeper into the ocean
What is temperature?
The flat part of the ocean floor that contains seamounts and islands.
What is the abyssal plain?
The cause of tides
What is the gravitational pull of the moon?
Underwater mountains or volcanoes
What are seamounts?
Most ocean life lives here
What is the upper layer of the ocean?
What is the Sunlight Zone?
The deepest part of the ocean
What is a trench?
The cause of currents.
What are wind and temperature patterns?
Where plankton get their energy.
What is photosynthesis (the sun)?
The 3 types of ocean organisms.
What are floaters, swimmers, and non-movers?
This decreases as you get deeper in the ocean.
What is sunlight?
The part of the ocean floor that is between the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor.
What is the continental slope?
Currents
What is the movement of water in a specific direction
The five oceans of the world
What are the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Pacific?
All 3 of the things that ocean animals need for survival.
What are dissolved gases, correct salinity, and correct temperature/pressure?
How do some organisms adapt to living in the midnight zone?
They produce their own light (bioluminescence)