Ocean Floor
The deepest part of the ocean floor.
What is an Ocean Trench?
____ causes waves.
What is Wind?
Micro-organisms that are responsible for much of the worlds oxygen supply.
What are phytoplankton?
The warmest zone of the ocean.
What is the Sunlight Zone?
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A long chain of mountains under the oceans surface.
What is the Mid Ocean Ridge?
The water temperature ___ as you dive deeper into the water.
What is decreases?
The name of organisms that start a food web and are placed at the bottom.
What are producers?
The zone of the ocean that lacks a majority of sea life.
What is the Midnight Zone?
The flat part of the ocean floor.
What is the Abyssal Plain?
___ causes the tides.
What is the Moon's Gravity?
Algae and other producers need lots of sunlight. Most ocean algae would be found in this part of the ocean floor.
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What is the Continental Shelf?
The zone where water pressure is the heaviest.
What is the Midnight Zone?
This word describes the mixture of salt and water.
What is salinity?
This happens to water pressure as you dive deeper into the ocean.
What is increases?
Oceans have very different living creatures then that of rivers and lakes. This is caused by ____
What is salt in the water?
The three different zones of the ocean.
What is Sunlight, Twilight and Midnight Zones?
In warm water near the equator salinity levels are know to be ____ then in water near the artic.
What is higher?
This current directly effects the water off the coast of Virginia.
What is the Gulf Stream Current.
Many species of ocean organisms live in coral reefs. The map shows that most coral reefs are found near the equator. The reason coral reefs live is due to the ___
What is warm sea water?
The zone where the most plants and ocean life live.
What is the Sunlight Zone?