Ocean Floor
The part of the ocean floor that borders a continent.
What is the continental shelf?
These are the basic motions of the ocean
What are Tides, waves, and currents?
This is about how much of Earth is covered by oceans.
What is 70%?
Name a swimming organism
Fish, squid, whale, shark, etc.
The part of the ocean floor where you play and fish.
What is the continental shelf?
Ocean water is the mix of what three things?
Gases, water, and dissolved solids
This is what the land would look like if all the ocean water went away
What is like the land on the continents?
Producers that live near the surface get their energy from this.
What is the sun?
The flat part of the ocean floor that contains seamounts and islands.
What is the abyssal plain?
The cause of waves
What is wind?
The amount of salt in water
What is salinity?
Name an example of a decomposer in the ocean
Bacteria or Fungi
The deepest part of the ocean
What is a trench?
These are are caused by wind patterns and the differences in water due primarily to temperature differences
What are Currents?
This increases as you go deeper in the ocean
What is pressure?
Plants and animals in the ocean are classified into these THREE major groups based on their habits and the depth of the water in which they live.
Floating, Swimming, Non-moving
The part of the ocean floor that is between the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor.
What is the continental slope?
These are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon
What are tides?
This decreases as you get deeper in the ocean.
What is sunlight?
Sun, phytoplankton, fish, seal, shark
What is an example of an ocean food chain?