Ocean Floor Features
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100

Flat, featureless area of the ocean floor

abyssal plain

100

The Mariana Trench is ______________ miles deep

7

100

What percent of the world is covered by water?

What is 70%

100

The pressure  ____________ as you travel deeper down in the ocean.

increases

100
How does the Sunlight Zone get its name?
What is from the amount of sunlight it receives.
200

This is the shallow part of the ocean floor that begins at the shoreline and is the extension of the continent under water. 

Continental shelf.

200

Flat topped seamount.

Guyot

200

This is home to most living things in the ocean, This is the area of the Ocean most swimming and fishing take place (begins with a "N")

Neritic

200

Why would water at the surface of the ocean be warmer than water at the bottom of the ocean?

receives more sunlight.

200
This zone is where Mr. Ruccio can splash around in the waves and swim with the fish.
What is the sunlight zone.
300

An area where diveregent plates meet and form an underwater mountain chain.  

Mid Ocean Ridge

300

The deepest part of the ocean is 

Mariana Trench

300

This happens to the temperature as you travel deeper into the ocean.

What is it gets colder.

300

This was a weighted rope that was used to measure the ocean floor.

sounding line

300
Name the 3 zones of the ocean.
What is the Sunlight, Twilight, and Midnight.
400

These features of the ocean floor are very deep valleys cause by convergent plates. 

trenches.

400

The deepest ocean trench in the world is located in this ocean, near what continent or country.

What is the Pacific Ocean.

400

The zone where most bioluminescent organisms live. (you must provide both names)

What is the twilight/disphotic zone 

400
In this zone many living things have soft bodies and large eyes.
What is the twilight zone.
500

The three parts in order that make up the continental margin. 

shelf, slope, rise

500

Name one person who has traveled to the Challenger Deep.

Jaques Piccard, James Cameron, Don Wolf, 

500

This is the type of technology that helps scientists explore the ocean floor.

What is Sonar.

500
These are the base of the food chain in the ocean and produce more oxygen than all the trees on land.
What are Diatoms.