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A system that uses sound waves to calculate the distance of an object.
What is sonar.
100
tiny algae and animals that float in the water and are carried by waves and currents?
What are plankton?
100
The rocky zone between the high and low tide line.
What is the intertidal zone?
100
It starts at the low tide zone and extends to the edge of the continental shelf.
Where does the Neritic Zone start and finish?
100
The farming of saltwater and freshwater animals.
What is aquaculture?
200
The earliest cultures to explore the ocean.
Who were the Phonecians.
200
Intertidal zone, Neritic zone, and Open- Ocean zone
What are the three ocean zones?
200
An estuary.
What are coastal inlets or bays that have brackish water.
200
A ring shaped reef surrounding a shallow lagoon.
What is an Atoll?
200
Black lumps that form when metals concentrate around pieces of shell.
What are nodules?
300
When magma comes up through the dis-convergent plates and creates a new layer of rock.
What is seafloor spreading.
300
The feeding relationship that exist in a habitat.
What is a food web?
300
One type of habitat found in or around the estuaries.
What are mangrove forests, salt marshes etc.?
300
The three zones of the open ocean zone
What are the transition zone, the surface zone, and the deep zones.
300
Name three things that we can use ocean organisms for, other than food.
What are detergents, shampoos, and cosmetics etc.?
400
The land form that peaks above the ocean's surface.
What is volcanic island.
400
Scientists classify Marine Organisms_______________
According to how they live and move
400
Three things that pollute estuaries.
What are over-fishing, direct pollution etc.?
400
They form in shallow, tropical ocean waters
Where do coral reefs form?
400
Three nonliving resources that come from the ocean.
What are minerals, water, and fuel.
500
How deep is the deepest part of the ocean's floor.
What is 11 km.
500
Free-Swimming animals that can move throught the water colum.
What are Nekton?
500
Problems that organisms living in the rocky shores face.
What are tidal pools, change in salinity, and rocks?
500
they form in deep, cold neuritic waters where the ocean has a rocky floor.
Where do Kelp forests form?
500
One natural occurring source of pollution.
What is when heavy rains wash fresh water into estuaries and kill some animals because of the change in salinity.