The Ocean Floor
Where most marine life is located
What is the Continental Shelf
The cause of waves
What is wind
What is the Gulf Stream
Plant-like plankton that carry out photosynthesis
What are Phytoplankton
The most common mineral in the ocean
What is salt
An underwater mountain range
What is a mid-ocean ridge
The reason few organisms live in a trench
It is too dark, too cold and the pressure is too high
Things that are affected by currents
animals, navigation routes and mixing of fresh and salt water
Animal-like plankton
Some things that affect salinity
runoff entering the water, the amount of ocean water that has been evaporated, and currents mixing the water
Where a thick layer of sediment is washed down
What is the continental rise
Turtles, dolphins and jellyfish live in this zone
The sunlight zone
The rise and fall of the level of the ocean along the shore
What is a tide
Where producers receive their energy
What is the sun
What happens to salinity as you go deeper in the ocean
What is increases
Deep smooth flat area of the ocean floor
What is the Abyssal Plain
These influence where organisms live
Temperature, pressure and light
Three things that cause currents
wind, water temperature and salinity
All organisms would die to
The main source of energy in the food chain
What is the sun
The order of the ocean's features from most shallow to the most deep
What is the Continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise, abyssal plain and ocean trench
This happens as you go down deeper
Salinity increases, pressure increases and light decreases
Three motions of the ocean
tides, currents and waves
The difference between a food chain and a web
A chain shows one path a web shows how different paths and animals are connected
sun - phytoplankton - zooplankton - small fish - seal - shark
What is a food chain