Ocean Floor
This is the deepest feature of the ocean.
What is an oceanic trench?
The name of the zone where most marine life lives.
What is the sunlight zone?
The term for the up-and-down movement of water caused by energy collecting on the surface.
What are waves?
This is the flat, vast area of the true ocean floor.
What is the abyssal plain?
The name of the tiny creatures that form the base of ocean food webs.
What is plankton/phytoplankton/zooplankton?
The name of the long distance current that carries warm water throughout the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The two planetary bodies responsible for the change in tides.
What are the sun and moon?
This ocean floor feature is a shallow area of sediment near the edge of a continent.
What is the continental shelf?
Phytoplankton are producers that get their energy from the ______.
What is sun?
A river of water running through the ocean.
What is a current?
Waves always move towards the __________.
What is the shore/land?
This is the steep drop at the edge of the continental shelf.
What is the continental slope?
A diagram showing the flow of energy from prey to predators.
What is a food chain/food web?
The impact of this can be the melting of ice bergs, changes in ocean salinity, and longer hurricane/monsoon seasons.
What is global warming?
The number of hours between a high tide and a low tide.
What is 6?
New land is formed underwater where this feature is found.
What is a ridge?
As the ocean water gets deeper, this is what happens to the light, pressure and temperature.
What is light decreases, temperature decreases, and pressure increases?
The role that an organism has in its environment.
What is a niche?
Differences in water temperature and salinity cause these.
What are deep water or ocean currents?