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Surface Zone
Deep Zone
Coral Reefs
Kelp Forest
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200 m
What is the surface zone top meters?
100
Unexplored
What is the deep ocean remains mostly?
100
25 percent
What is the percent of all the species of ocean life that the coral reef contains over?
100
Kelp Forest
What is large communities of this seaweed form?
200
Zooplankton and Phytoplankton
What is two types of plankton that live near the surface?
200
Lantern fish, squids, octpopuses, and shrimp
What is some of the inhabitants of the deep ocean?
200
Clown fish and Star fish
What is at least two inhabitants of coral reefs?
200
Snails, Brittle stars, Prawn, Sea Urchins, and Sea stars.
What is animals that live in kelp forest?
300
It converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into food.
What is Plankton's main purpose?
300
Because sunlight does not reach the deep zone.
What is what makes the deep zone cold and dark?
300
2000 kilometers long
What is the size of Australia's great barrier reef?
300
Kelp
What is a seaweed that attaches itself to the ocean floor and grows as tall as 40 m?
400
Sinking
What is it that inhabitants of the surface zone must keep from?
400
Bacteria
What is it that scientists found that animals at hydrothermal vents depend on a special type of?
400
By large colonies of ant-sized organisms called corals
What is how are coral reefs built up?
400
1912
What is the year that the waters contained a seaweed called Kelp?
500
When bladder fills with air, the fish floats up toward the surface.
What is how fish stay near the top of the surface zone?
500
They found thriving communities of crab, fish, mussels, shrimp, giant clams, and tubeworms.
What is it that scientist found in 1977 while investigating deep-sea sediments?
500
Limestone
What is what sedimentary rock that covers remains after the corals die?
500
Sunlight
What is what does Kelp use as food?