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Major Oceans
Ocean Creatures
Salinity
Ocean Zones
Waves and Tides
100
The largest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
These ocean creatures are able to make their own food.
What are plankton?
100
The salt in the ocean do not come from which of the following: A- the action of waves along shorelines B- volcanoes erupting in the oceans C- rains that fall into the oceans D- major rivers eroding inland areas
What is C- rains that fall into the oceans?
100
The temperature of ocean water is highest in this zone.
What is the surface zone?
100
1500 m/s
What is the speed of sound in water?
200
The 3 major oceans.
What are Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans?
200
SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs, and Patrick are all part of this group.
What are benthos?
200
Compared to the open gulf water, at the point where the Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico, the salinity of the water would be this.
What is lower?
200
The deepest ocean zone.
What is abyssal zone?
200
Most places have this many tides per day.
What is 4?
300
71 percent
What is the percent of the Earth's crust covered by ocean water?
300
Animals that live in the ocean also need this to live.
What is oxygen?
300
The amount of salt present in the ocean is expressed in this unit.
What is parts per thousand?
300
These change the temperature of the surface zones.
What are location and seasons?
300
It is strong enough to pull a swimmer under the water and out to sea.
What is an undertow?
400
A part of an ocean that is nearly surrounded by land.
What is a sea?
400
Intertidal animals attach themselves to sand or rocks to prevent this.
What is being washed out to sea?
400
Evaporation of ocean water will cause this to the salinity.
What is the salts present to become more concentrated?
400
Most of the seafood we eat is found in this ocean zone.
What is neritic zone?
400
Giant waves caused by earthquakes.
What are tsunamis?
500
The ocean is a source of ___ for all living things.
What is fresh water
500
Small sea creatures that depend on floating and drifting in the oceans
What are plankton?
500
This is the most abundant salt found in the ocean.
What is sodium chloride?
500
The transition zone between the surface zone and the deep zone.
What is the thermocline?
500
This is what really moves in a wave out at sea.
What is energy?