The Surface Layers
Oceanographers
Fun Facts
Food Chains
Miscellaneous
100

The nickname of the Hadalpelagic Zone.

What is "the trenches"?

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The Hadalpelagic Zone gets its nickname due to its high amount of pressure,the freezing temperature, and the lack of sunlight it gets.

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100

The Oceanographer that would study plants and animals in the marine environment.

What is Biological Oceanographer?

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Biological Oceanographers study marine life. That is why they are also called Marine Biologists. They go on trips to study different types of animals in the ocean that can take months  https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceanographer.html 


100

 The largest Ocean on Earth

What is the Pacific Ocean? (covers 30% of the Earth)

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The Pacific Ocean covers about 30% of the earth.THe Pacific Ocean is so huge covers more area than all land masses united. https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/pacific-size.html 


100

What the third consumer in a food chain is called.

What is tertiary consumer?

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Tertiary consumers are usually carnivorous predators but they can be omnivores too. Omnivores are animals that eat meat and plants. https://biologydictionary.net/tertiary-consumer/  

100

Most of the Earth's water is from lakes

    True Or False

                    

                             What is False?

------------------------Information---------------------  96.5% of the Earth's water is the Oceans water.The other 3.5% is from lakes,frozen water in  glaciers, and polar ice caps.  https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water  scienceschool/science/how-much-water-there-  earth?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-  science_center_objects 


200

The Zone that receives the most light

What is the Epipelagic Zone?

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The Epipelagic Zone is the surface layer which gives it the most visible light. The light also brings heat to the part of the ocean.                               https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/layers_ocean

 

200

The oceanographer most likely to study hydrothermal circulation.

What is geological oceanographer?

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Geological Oceanographers studies helps us understand the procedure that the interactions and ocean basins create within the ocean and seafloor  https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceanographer.html 


200

The Ocean that was enlisted in 2000 that is also called the Antarctic Ocean due to the ocean encircling Antarctica. 

What is the Southern Ocean

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4% of the Earth is covered by the Southern Ocean.http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8o.html


200

What the primary consumer eat in the food chain

What is the producer?

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Primary producers that live in terrestrial ecosystem live in and around organic matter. https://www.toppr.com/ask/question/what-do-primary-producers-have-available-to-convert-into-biomass/ 



200

 The amount of trash in the ocean in 2019

     A-53.9 million   B-20.8 billion   C-5.25 trillion 

What is C ?

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There is 5.25 trillion pieces of debris.Roughly 200,000 of them float on the ocean's surface while 4 billion pieces of plastic microfibers roam in the deep sea. The other pieces go as the currents take them.https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/ocean-trash-525-trillion-pieces-and-counting-big-questions-remain/ 


300

The Hadalpelagic Zone is easy to explore.

                True or False 

What is False? (due to its cold temperature and its extremely high pressure)

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Due to the Hadalpelagic Zone's  frigid temperatures, the zone cannot be explored without the right equipment and some experience

https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/layers_ocean 


300

The oceanographer that explores the processes of the ocean floor that form mountains,canyons,valleys, and etc.

What is Geological Oceanographer?

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It is geological Oceanographers job to study the forms of Earth and the Ocean so they can figure out how ongoing processes will might mutate the processes in the future. http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Oc-Po/Oceanography-Geological.html

 



300

The Ocean that is bounded by west of Africa, North to Asia, and East to Australia.

What is the Indian Ocean?

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The Indian Ocean basin is less than 80 million years old. https://www.britannica.com/place/Indian-Ocean 


300

 The name of the organism that doesn't get eaten by anything in the food chain

What is the Quaternary Consumer?

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 An example of a Quaternary Consumer is  a White Hawk. https://www.reference.com/business-finance/quaternary-consumer-1a869e019caeecb4 


300

The amount of water covers the Earth's surface

          A- 50%      B-80%     C-71%    

What is C ? 

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71% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The ocean contains 99% of the living space on the planet.  see-the-sea.org/facts/facts-body.htm

 



400

The Zone that is called the dark zone although light can be observed from the creatures in the zone.(the dark zone is 1/2 of its nickname)

What is the Bathypelagic/Midnight Zone?

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The Bathypelagic Zone has a depth of 1000 to 4,000 miles                                                         

http://www.seasky.org/deep-sea/ocean-layers.html 


  




   


400

The one of the four oceanographers who have the  most sedentary job.

What is physical oceanographer?

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Physical Oceanographers study physical conditions     and physical currents in the ocean. https://dosits.org/galleries/career-gallery/physical-oceanographer/ 


400

How old the ocean is

 A-50 billion years  B-3.8 billion  C-100 million years 

What is B ?

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The Ocean is 3.8 billion years old.Water used to be gas until the earth cooled down . Then the water condensed into rain which filled the basins. Now, 3.8 billion years after,the basins full of rain has turned into ocean   oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/why_oceans.html 


400

The process used that allows the producer to produce its own food.

What is photosynthesis?

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You need water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight to perform photosynthesis. https://ssec.si.edu/stemvisions-blog/what-photosynthesis 



400

The name for primary consumers

    A-herbivores  B-omnivores  C-carnivores

What is herbivores ?

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Herbivores eat plants. Herbivorous animals usually have mouths that are used to grinding things with its teeth(plants). https://www.miamicosmeticdentalcare.com/teeth-herbivores-carnivores-omnivores/ 

  

500

One animal who lives in the Epipelagic Zone/Sunlight Zone that is a carnivorous predator. 

What is Blue Shark?

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Blue Sharks live in temperate and tropical seas. Temperate seas the Blue Shark sometimes approaches shores where the divers can observe them but in Tropical seas, it goes to greater depths.                                                                https://sharks.panda.org/conservation-focus/sharks-and-rays 



500

The Oceanographer that studies the ocean atmosphere relationships that influences weather and climate.

What is Physical Oceanographer?

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Physical Oceanographers study the motions of the ocean.They also study the physical properties of the ocean waters. https://www.britannica.com/science/oceanography 

   

500

The third largest ocean.

What is the Indian Ocean?

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The hottest Ocean in the World is the Indian Ocean.The temperature the ocean inhabits  effects the marine ecosystems along with global climate. http://www.climate.rocksea.org/research/indian-ocean-warming/ 


500

The name for an organism that can break down dead things and can also feast on decaying flesh while its still on a living organism.

What are decomposers?

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Decomposers do not decompose anything. Decomposers work to decompose natural processes.https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/who-decomposes-the-decomposers 



500

This Ocean is almost completely covered with sea ice in the winter time

A-Pacific        B-Indian       C- Arctic

What is C ?

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The Arctic Ocean is almost completely covered with ice in the winter.The sea ice is from the Southern Ocean that extends way north in the winter time.Sea ice is usually a few metres thick. http://www.softschools.com/facts/geography/arctic_ocean_facts/1022/