Ocean Zones
Ocean Floor
Currents
Tides
Marine Food Web
100
What is the name of the top zone of ocean water?
Sunlit zone, Euphotic Zone
100
The shallowest part of the ocean floor, think about the beach!
Continental plain
100
What are currents
Streams of water that move through the ocean
100
What is a tide?
The gravitational pull of the Earth and Moon that causes ocean water to rise and fall at the beach.
100
What is the name of organisms who make their own food from energy from the sun?
Producers
200
What is the middle ocean water zone called?
The twilight or bathyal zone
200
The area near the bottom of the ocean floor where sand is piled up before flattening out.
Continental rise
200
Name the one thing that causes SURFACE currents.
Wind
200
What is low tide?
When the water is at it's lowest point
200
What is the name for organisms that get their energy from eating other organisms?
Consumers
300
What is the deepest ocean water zone called?
Midnight or Abyssal zone
300
The DEEPEST part of the ocean, deep dips in the ocean floor
Ocean trenches
300
Name one thing that causes DEEP WATER currents
Temperature or salinity
300
What is high tide?
When water is at it's highest point?
300
Bacteria and fungi are examples of ____?
Decomposers
400
Tell me about the temperature and pressure in the midnight/ abyssal zone.
Cold, no sunlight, high pressure
400
The deep, flat part of the ocean floor.
Abyssal plain
400
How do currents affect people and animals?
Currents help ships move, currents help animals travel through the ocean
400
What causes tides?
The gravitational pull of the moon is pulling on Earth causing the water to shift.
400
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500
Name the ocean water zones from shallow to deepest.
Sunlit zone, twilight zone, midnight zone
Euphotic zone, bathyal zone, abyssal zone
500
The steep drop off AFTER the continental plain.
Continental slope
500
Name the important currents that move water up the East coast of North America
The Gulf Stream
500
If high tide is recorded at 11:56 a.m., when can we assume THE NEXT high tide will be?
About 11:56 p.m.
500
What will happen to the food web if the crab population gets a disease? 
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