Living Things and Habitats
Small plants and animals
Plankton
Where there is the greatest variety of living things.
Neritic Zone
#1 source of oil ocean pollution
Street runoff
Ocean floor dwellers.
Benthos
Where there is the most sunlight.
Surface Zone
Name two living resources.
Tuna, lobster, shrimp, crabs, scallops, oysters, mussels, kelp. flounder
Free swimmers.
Nekton.
The area that most of us swim in.
Intertidal Zone
Name 3 non-living resources
Water, oil, minerals.
Name two regions in the neritic zone that animals call home.
Coral Reef
Kelp Forest
From the edge of the shelf out away from land.
Lumps of metals mined off the ocean floor
Nodules.
These two characteristics help scientists place organisms.
Where they live
How they move
Anything below 1,000 M
Deep Zone
What fish supposed slowed ships.
Cod.