Ocean Movements
The up and down motion on the surface of the ocean is called?
Waves
What type of consumer only eats meat?
Carnivore
What part of the ocean floor is flat, smooth, and underwater?
Abyssal Plain
Where an organism lives is called...
Habitat
An educated guess using "If...Then..." statements
Hypothesis
You are swimming at the beach. Suddenly, you look up and see you have drifted far away from your friends! What is pulling you?
Currents
What type of animal only eats plants?
Herbivore
What is the deepest part of the ocean?
Ocean trench
All of the animals living together in one habitat
Community
When you use previous knowledge to inform an opinion about something.
Inference
You build a sand castle on the beach. You come back a few hours later and realize the ocean has washed away your sand castle! How can this be! You made it far away from the ocean. What type of ocean movement made this happen?
Tides
What type of animal eats both plants and animals?
Omnivore
This part of the ocean floor connects the continental slope to the deep abyssal plain.
Continental rise
All living and nonliving things in a specific area
ecosystem
The thing you are changing or testing during an experiment.
Variable
This type of movement is affected by the gravitational pull of the moon.
Tides
What eats dead and decaying things, giving nutrients back to the earth.
Decomposers
This is the part of the ocean floor that you stand on when you go to the beach.
continental shelf
Predator
This type of data shows numbers about something, such as weight, height, mass, and volume.
Quantitative Data
The largest system of ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean is called what?
The Gulf Stream
Where do producers get their energy?
The sun
As you descend deeper into the ocean, pressure (increase/decreases) and temperature (increases/decreases)
Pressure-Increases
Temperature-Decreases
When two animals are hunting and fighting for the same food, they are...
competing for food
This type of data describes how things look, feel, smell, and taste.
Qualitative Data