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Ocean Features
Ocean Water
Ocean Movement
Ocean Food Webs
Miscellaneous
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The part of the ocean floor you are on while you are swimming at the beach.
What is the continental shelf
100
How much of the earth is covered by oceans?
What is 70%
100
This is caused by an underwater earthquake
What is a tsunami
100
These plant-like free floating organisms are the base of the ocean food web
What is phytoplankton
100
As you go deeper in the ocean, the number of living species (increases or decreases)
What is decreases
200
This is the world's longest mountain chain, which is found in the ocean.
What is the mid-ocean ridge
200
This is a measure of how much salt is in the water
What is salinity
200
The major current that affects the weather on the East Coast of the United States
What is the Gulf Stream
200

These are microscopic animals that are eaten by other sea creatures

What is zooplankton

200
As the depth of the ocean increases, the water pressure (increases or decreases)
What is increases
300
This has a steep incline, is covered with sediments, and extends from the continental shelf toward the ocean floor
What is the continental slope
300
Where does the salt come from that is found in the ocean?
What is from rivers running over rocks on land
300
The main cause of tides on the earth
What is the gravitational pull of the moon
300

The ocean zone where you find most of the animal and plant life

What is the continental shelf

300
An adaptation found on creatures living in the twilight or midnight zones
What is bioluminescence
400

These are the deepest parts of the ocean floor. They are caused by convergent boundaries (plates moving together).

What is a trench

400
As water evaporates from the ocean what happens to the salt in the ocean
What is the salt is left behind
400

The number of high tides at the beach each day

What is 2

400
Phytoplankton must live near the surface of the ocean because they need ______ for photosynthesis
What is sunlight
400
A river like movement of water within a larger body of water
What is a current
500
The flat ocean floor that covers almost half of the ocean.
What is the abyssal plain
500
Water with a higher salinity are (more or less) dense?
What is more dense
500

The main causes of of currents in the ocean

What is differences in water temperature and salinity

500
You are least likely to find plant life in which part of the ocean, the abyssal plain or an ocean trench
What is a trench
500

Waves, tides, currents saltiness of sea water

What are the physical characteristics

600

What are the 5 features of the ocean floor

Continental Shelf, Continental Slope, Continental Rise, Trench, Abyssal Plain

600

What is salinity

What is all the salts dissolved in water and it varies in the ocean

600

What are the ocean's move?

What is tides and currents

600

Ocean organisms are grouped into three types of movement

What is floating, swimming, non-movement

600

One of these currents impacts us here in Virginia

What is the Gulf Stream current