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?
state where the concentration of dissolved salts is consistent throughout a body of water, with little variation over space or time.
What is being uniform?
What is the continental rise?
The concentration of salt, which isn't uniform.
The world's largest mountain range is here
Where is underwater?
Sun, phytoplankton, fish, seal, shark
What is an example of an ocean food chain?
phytoplankton, algae, seaweed, and seagrass, are what?
What are producers?
The flat part of the ocean floor that contains seamounts and islands.
What is the abyssal plain?
The cause of waves
What is wind?
Underwater mountains or volcanos
What are seamounts?
Most ocean life lives here
What is the upper layer of the ocean?
Sharks, whales, small fish, starfish, crabs, seahorses, jellyfish, shrimp, oysters, sardines, herring, salmon, tuna, cod, orcas, dolphins, seals, sea lions, great whites, and sea snakes, are all WHAT in the food chain?
What are consumers?
The deepest part of the ocean
What is a trench?
Ocean currents transport warm water from the equator to the polar regions.
What helps regulate temperatures around the Earth?
This increases as you go deeper in the ocean
What is pressure?
This sea life (organism) is a producer and carries out photosynthesis.
What is phytoplankton?
This decreases as you get deeper in the ocean.
What is sunlight?
The part of the ocean floor where it deepens sgnificantly
What is the continental slope?
The Gulf Stream travels on this part of the ocean floor.
What is the top?
Temperature, depth, & salinity depend on this.
What is location?
This organism provides much of Earth's oxygen
What is phytoplankton?
What the land would look like if all the ocean water went away
What is like the land on the continents?