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Ocean Zones
Ocean Ecosystems
What are oceans?
Ocean Zones Con'td.
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How many major ocean layers are there?

What is 5

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What type of plankton uses photosynthesis 

phytoplankton 

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How many major oceans are there?
What is 5
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This zone starts at the surface (top) of the water and supports plant life, such as seaweed, kelp, and coral.
What is Sunlight zone
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What tide is when the moon and sun are in a straight line

spring tide

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Name the zone that is at the very bottom. Few animals can live here because of the pressure.

What is the hadopelagic zone or the trenches?

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a plankton that eats other plankton

zooplankton

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What is ocean water made of?
What is salt water
200
Why do plants live in the sunlight zone?
What is They receive enough sunlight to grow
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What type of current is dangerous near beaches

Rip tide/current

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More than 90% of all marine organisms live here.

What is the sunlight zone? epipelagic

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A microscopic plant that lives at the surface area of the sunlit zone, provides abundant oxygen.

What is Phytoplankton?

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What percent of Earth's surface is covered in water?

What is 70-72%

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What adaptations do animals that live in the deep ocean have?
What is bio-luminescence (ability to light up) and large, sharp teeth
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What are the waves called that have broken crests because of strong wind

white caps

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This zone receives some sunlight but not a lot. Plant eating fish can still live here but they have to survive on scraps from above.

What is Twilight zone?

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What organism can get bleached if the water is too acidic

What is coral reef

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Why is the ocean important?

What is need water for cycle, supports life, and plants provide oxygen (list 2/3)

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What happens as the depth increases?
What is colder, salt increase, and darker
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What are the two forms of ocean movement 

What is waves and current

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Name the ocean layers common names

What is sunlight zone, twilight zone, and midnight zone, abyss and trenches

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What is called when  an animal produces its own light

bioluminescent

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What are the five major oceans?
What is Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern
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Which ecosystem supports the a greater variety of living organisms, the deep ocean or coral reef?
What is coral reef
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What is the effect called that makes earths water rotate right in the northern hemisphere and left in the southern

Coriolis effect