Scientific Method
Ocean Acidification
Ocean Basin
NOTES
Corals
100

What is the 5th part of the Scientific method?

Analyze Data

100

What causes Ocean Acidification? 

What is Heat and Carbon Dioxide
100

What are the the different Layers of Earth? 

What are Atmosphere, Lithosphere, Core, mantle and crust 

100

This is the natural environment where an organism lives, A home to a specific animal or plant 

What is Habitat
100

Corals are consider what? 

They are Animals
200
This part of the Scientific Method is when you gather your materials and start working on your project. 

What is Design your Experiment 

200

What is Ocean Acidification?

What is the changes to the ocean temperature

200

What is the deepest part of the ocean basin? 

What are Tranches 

200

What is the name given to the Supercontinent? 

What is Pangaea

200

What are some ways to protect our corals? 

Reducing Plastics use, sustainable fishing practices, energy conservation, coastal zone management and more

300
This part of the scientific method is when you formulate a scientific guess. 

What is Hypothesis

300

When corals are dying it is called? 

What is coral bleaching

300

What are the 4 parts of the Continental Margin

Continental Shelf, Continental Slope, Continental Rise and Abyssal Plain 

300

Where is the deepest place in the ocean and where is it located? 

What is the Marian Trench and is located in the western Pacific Ocean

300
Corals are made up of tiny animals call? 

Pollyps

400
Why do people and Scientist use Scientific Method? 

To solve real life problems 

400

Complete the statement below

The higher ________ in the ocean makes it har for ________ to live. 

What is

The higher temperature in the ocean makes it hard for corals to live

400

How many large basin is divided in to

There are 5 ocean Basins 

400
American Samoa is surrounded by what kind of reef?

What is Fringing Reef

400

The Algae that lives inside the corals and is responsible for the different colors of the corals is called? 

Zooxanthellae

500

What is the first part of the Scientific Method? 

Asking a Scientific Question

500

What are some ways we can help reduce Ocean Acidification? 

What is less burning of fossil fuel, plastics, trash, turn off lights etc.., car pool and other

500

What are the 3 plate margins? 

Constructive (Divergent), Destructive (Convergent), Conservative (Transform) 

500

Name a 3 different Species found in the ocean of American Samoa? Name of a fish, and 2 corals

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500

What are the 4 different types of Coral Skeleton Shape?

Mounding, Branching, Plating, and Encrusting