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The Ocean Floor
The Ocean Zones
Ocean Food
Chains
Ocean
Movements
Oceans of the World
100
The part of the ocean floor that begins at the shoreline. We play in a small part of this.
What is the continental shelf?
100
The ocean zone in which most plants and animals live.
What is the sunlight zone?
100
Tiny ocean animals, shrimp-like.
What is zooplankton?
100
Water movement caused by changing water temperatures. These flow like a river through the ocean.
What is a current?
100
What is the largest ocean on the earth?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
The flat area of the ocean floor.
What is the abyssal plain?
200
The zone in which there is no light whatsoever.
What is the midnight zone?
200
All of the free swimming animals that live in the ocean, such as fish and sharks.
What are nekton?
200
Water movement caused by wind and the movement of objects through the water. It's an up and down movement of the surface of the body of water.
What is a wave?
200
The smallest ocean in the world.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
300
The part of the ocean floor that drops from the shelf to great depths.
What is the continental slope?
300
The middle zone of the ocean.
What is the twilight zone?
300
Microscopic plants in the ocean that begin the food chain.
What are phytoplankton?
300
The daily rise and fall of the surface of the ocean caused by the moon's gravitational pull.
What are tides?
300
What percentage of the earth is covered with water?
What is 70%?
400
Gently upward sloping area that connects the slope to the ocean floor. Created by sediments.
What is the continental rise?
400
As depth increases, these decrease.
What are temperature and light?
400
All of the plants and animals that live at the bottom of the ocean, such as clams and oysters.
What are benthos?
400
Describes the amount of salt dissolved in water.
What is salinity?
400
Name the five oceans.
What are the Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific, Indian and Southern?
500
Very deep crevices in the ocean floor that are similar to canyons on land.
What are ocean trenches?
500
As depth increases, this too increases.
What is pressure?
500
Organism's that use the sun's energy to make their own food.
What are producers?
500
How deep a body of water is.
What is depth?
500
Where is the largest coral reef located?
What is off the coast of Australia?