What is the continental shelf, continental slope and abyssal plain
100
Where is this zone located?
What is at the highest tide line on land to the lowest tide line on the continental shelf
100
Where is this zone located?
What is from the low tide line to the edge of the continental shelf
100
Where is this zone located?
What is everything beyond the continental shelf
200
What is the difference between a marine food web and a terrestrial food web?
What is one describes the feeding relationships in the water and terrestrial describes land organisms
200
Which ocean zone(s) lie in the continental shelf?
What is the intertidal and neritic zones
200
Organisms that live here must be able to live in extreme conditions. What are these conditions?
What is changes in salinity, temperature and exposure to air
200
Why is this region is support a wide variety of organisms?
What is because it receives a lot of sunlight and nutrients that are washed from the land into the ocean
200
What are the 3 zones this area is divided into?
What is the surface zone, transition zone, and deep zone
300
Why are terrestrial and aquatic food webs important to each other?
What is they both depend on each other for different types of food sources (ex: sea birds eat fish)
300
Which ocean zone(s) lie in the abyssal plain?
What is The Open Ocean Zone
300
What type of life forms live here?
What are sea stars, sea urchin, mussels, hermit crabs (answers may vary, must have at least 2 from pg. 192)
300
What are some creatures that live here?
What are seals, sardines, kelp, plankton, coral reefs (answers may vary, must have 2)
300
How does this zone differ from the neritic zone?
What is only a small portion receives sunlight and the water has fewer nutrients
400
What are the 3 types of life in the ocean (hint: they are classified based on how they move in the water)
What is plankton (tiny algae or animals that float), nekton (free swimming organisms) and benthos (live on the bottom of the ocean)
400
What is the abyssal floor made up of?
What is thick layers of sediment, formed by sunken remains of dead organisms from the surface
400
What is a tide pool?
What is water left in in the depressions in the rocks when the tide goes out.
400
Why are coral reefs and kelp so important?
What is because they provide food and shelter for so many marine organisms
400
This zone is the only zone in which there is enough sunlight to support algae. What is an ocean zone that receives sunlight called?
What is photic zone
500
Compare and contrast producers and consumers
What is producers make their own energy and consumers must eat other things in order to get energy. Producers are eaten by consumers.
500
What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge?
What is a chain of undersea mountains that runs all around the world
500
Describe an estuary
What is the area in which fresh water meets salt water.
FYI: Coastal wetlands are found here. Along the coast of the U.S., Most wetlands are either mangrove forests or salt marshes
500
How are human activities impacting coral reefs?
What is destroying them by our recreational activities (boating, diving, pollution)
500
What is a way that organisms have adapted to live without light
What is bioluminescence: the production of light by living things