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The Ocean Floor
The Shape of the Ocean Floor
The Zones of the Ocean
Ocean Ecosystems
Ocean Ecosystems Continued
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This is the three layers of the ocean floor (from shallowest to deepest)
What is continental shelf, continental slope, and abyssal plain
100
These are the three things that make the high mountains and canyons of the ocean floor
What is trenches, seamounts, and mid-ocean ridges
100
These are the four zones of the ocean
What is photic, aphotic, bathyal, and abyssal zones
100
These are the four types of ocean ecosystems
What is coral reef, intertidal, deep-ocean vent, and estuaries
100
Where are coral reef ecosystems found
What is in warm sunlit water
200
This how steep the drop of the continental slope can be
What is 2.5 to 3 miles
200
This occurs where two plates collide
What is trenches
200
What two zones make up the aphotic zone
What is bathyal and abyssal zones
200
This ecosystem is where fresh and salt water meet
What is estuaries
200
This is the nickname for estuaries
What is "nurseries of the sea"
300
Why is the continental shelf rich in marine life
What is they have large amounts of sunlight
300
This is where to plates move apart
What is mid-ocean ridges
300
This is what the word photic means and this is what aphotic means
What is light; no light
300
This ecosystem has the most diverse of all ecosystems
What is coral reef
300
This is what organisms in the intertidal zone must protect themselves from during the high tide (when water comes on shore)
What is from the rough waves of the water
400
How much of the Earth's surface is covered by the abyssal plain?
What is about 1/2
400
This is how seamounts are formed
What is molten rock bubbling up through the ocean floor
400
This zone includes almost the entire continental slope
What is bathyal zone
400
This ecosystem is always changing
What is intertidal
400
Give three examples of an estuary
What is bays, inlets, rivers, swamps, marshes, sounds
500
How far deep is the continental shelf (in feet)
What is 460 ft
500
At what part is new ocean land being formed
What is at the mid-ocean ridge
500
As you go further down the zones what four things change in the ocenan environment
What is pressure increases, temperature decrease, light decreases, and organisms change
500
This is the primary producer in the deep-ocean vent ecosystem
What is bacteria
500
The sun is the energy source for producers, what is the energy source in the deep ocean vent ecosystem
What is volcanic vents