Exploring the Ocean
This is the smooth, nearly flat section of the ocean floor:
What is the abyssal plain?
This is the production of light by living things:
What is bioluminescence?
These are animals that remain on the surface of the ocean, moving with the waves:
What are plankton?
These are metals that concentrate around pieces of shells:
What are nodules?
Heart valves (or any valve) prevent blood from:
Going backwards
This is a circular reef which surrounds a shallow lagoon:
What is an atoll?
These are free-swimming animals
What are nekton?
The area of the ocean that extends from the low-tide line to the edge of the continental shelf is called:
What is the neritic zone?
This is the farming of saltwater or freshwater organisms:
What is aquaculture?
This is what forms when gases in a nebula are so dense and hot that nuclear fusion starts
What is a star?
This is the steep edge of the continental shelf:
What is the continental slope?
This is what the feeding relationships in a habitat is called:
What is a food web?
This is the area that extends from the highest high-tide line to the lowest low tide line:
What is the intertidal zone?
These the two ways in which a person can get active immunity:
- Infection by a pathogen, and the immune system making antibodies in response
- Receiving a vaccine
X-rays, infrared, and ultraviolet are regions of the:
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
This is the gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of the continent:
What is the continental shelf?
These are animals which move only on the ocean floor:
What are benthos?
Hydrothermal vents are most commonly found along:
What are mid-ocean ridges?
Deep ocean currents are caused by _____.
What is an effect of deep ocean currents? (Hint: warm/cold water is moved from where to where)
Cause: differences in ocean density. Effects: carry cold water from poles to equator
Star A looks the same as Star B every night, but Star A is actually twice as bright and twice as far away from Earth. The only way you would know this is by using Star A’s:
What is absolute brightness?
This is the area of the ocean beyond the continental shelf:
What is the open ocean?
This is a coastal bay or inlet where freshwater mixes with saltwater:
What is an estuary?
A mid-ocean ridge forms along what kind of plate boundary?
What is a divergent boundary?
This is what the pulse at our temples, neck, elbows, and wrists is caused by:
Arteries expanding and contracting because of heartbeats pumping blood
These are the 5 ways in which stars are classified:
Color, temperature, size, composition, and brightness