Ocean Landforms
The ocean land that becomes steeper.
What is the continental slope?
The ocean between Africa and North America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The zone where 90% of all animals and plants live.
What is the Sunlight Zone?
The center of the earth
What is the core?
Very tiny floating one-celled plants in the oceans
What is phytoplankton?
This landform is formed by molten rock coming through a crack in the earth's crust.
What is a volcano?
The ocean south of Asia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The zone that is the darkest and coldest.
What is the Midnight Zone?
This layer is made up of many plates which move.
What is the crust?
This very tiny animal eats phytoplankton.
What is zooplankton?
The ocean land nearest the shoreline
What is the continental shelf?
This is the coldest and shallowest ocean.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
This zone extends down to the ocean floor.
What is the Midnight Zone?
The outer layer of the earth
What is the crust?
People can hurt the ocean animals and plants by doing this.
What is polluting?
The large flat land of the ocean floor
What is the abyssal plain?
This is the deepest and largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This zone is in the middle of the other zones and is cold and dark.
What is the Twilight Zone?
This earth's layer contains the molten rock.
What is the mantle?
This animal group gives birth to live young, nurses young, breathes with lungs, and has body hair.
What is a mammal?
This landform has been eroded and weathered and no longer is above the ocean's surface.
What is a seamount?
This is the ocean between Asia, North America and South America.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The zone that people can swim and dive in.
What is the Sunlight Zone?
The theory that all of the continents were together forming a supercontinent called this.
What is Pangaea?
A chemical that some ocean animals, that live in the dark, have which "lights" them up.
What is bioluminescence?