Supralittoral zone
The common name for the supralittoral zone
What is Splash Zone?
The littoral zone is also known by another name.
What is intertidal zone?
There is another known name for the sublittoral zone
What is subtidal zone?
The bathyal, abyssal, and hadal zones lack an energy source
What is radiant energy?
Fauna benthic organisms
What are epifauna and infauna?
Water splashes against the supralittoral during this ocean motion
What is high spring tide?
The littoral zone is hit with a certain type of tides that happens a certain times a day.
What is high and low tides that come twice a day?
The sublittoral zone is under a certain tide level
What is low tide?
The deepest zone in the ocean
What is the hadal zone?
The general depth epifauna live on
What is on the surface of the seafloor?
Adaptation that is necessary for organisms in the upper supralittoral zone.
What is the organisms must survive period of dryness. This is because the high tides splash the area regularly but do not completely cover it.
There are different variables that can vary between each littoral zone environment.
What is temperature, plants, wave amplitude, and substrate?
The major feature where the sublittoral zone goes over
What is continental shelf?
The depth of the hadal zone and the organisms the animals that live there feed on
What is 6000m and they feed on organic matter from euphotic zones?
Algae is type of flora
What is epiflora?