Vocab
This vocab word is the word for the original ocean exploration technology- used in wars and marine exploration.
What is submarines?
This is the type of water found in estuaries
What is brackish?
This is the deepest ocean zone.
What are trenches?
This is the name for submersibles that are controlled from a human on the ship and has no one on board.
This is the largest estuary on Earth.
The Chesapeake Bay
This vocab word is the word for when fresh water and salt water meet and mix.
The amount of commercial fish and sealife that spends part of it's life cycle in an estuary (percentage)
What is more than 80%?
This is the ocean zone that has constantly changing salinity, temperature and sunlight.
What is intertidal zone?
This is the technology where sound waves are sent to the bottom of the ocean and reflect back to the ship, forming a picture.
What is sonar?
This is how large the pacific ocean garbage patch is
1.6 million sq kilometers
3x the size of France
2x the size of Texas
This vocab word is the word for a volcanic vent under the water
What is hydrothermal vent?
This is one other name for an estuary.
Bay, Lagoon, Sound, Inlet.
This ocean zone is the shallowest zone that does NOT have enough sunlight to photosynthesize.
What is twilight zone?
This is the technology that can hold many people and be under the water for an extended amount of time
How deep is the Mariana Trench? (in miles or meters)
around 11,000 meters or 7 miles
What is Mariana Trench?
Estuaries are a very productive environment. What does being a productive environment mean?
These two ocean zones contain about 70% of the ocean floor
Can be affected by organisms
Does not give a highly detailed picture of one area
Cannot tell about what organisms are in certain areas
Over 80%
This is the vocab word for an underwater mountain.
What is mid-ocean ridge?
Name three organisms that live or spend part of their life in estuaries.
Coho salmon, herons, blue crabs, oysters, clams, snails, aquatic worms, alewive, terrapins, killifish
This is the only full in the ocean zone where photosynthesis can occur.
What is the sunlight zone
Name one drawback to using submersibles as ocean technology
Need to be launched from another ship
Can only hold a few humans if any
expensive
What is the name for the zone where a tectonic plate melts and creates an oceanic trench?
Hint= not an ocean zone.
A subduction zone