Geographical Features
This is the deepest parts of the ocean. This area has the least light and the least ocean life. Animals that live in the trenches need to have adaptations to survive there.
What are trenches?
The first thing on a food chain of the ocean
What is the sun
What is Miss Ryan's favorite color?
Green
Streams of water within the ocean.
What are currents
What the ocean is made of
What are gases and sediments?
Underwater mountain ranges. Formed from molten rock from volcanoes.
What is the Mid-ocean ridge?
This element's presence in ocean water makes life in the ocean possible
What is oxygen
The darkest part of the Ocean
What are trenches
The rising and falling of the ocean
What are waves
What goes down as the depth increases?
The area closest to the continents and has the shallowest water. The part of a continent that is underwater.
What is the Continental shelf
Producers of most of the oceans oxygen
What are Phytoplankton
Covers half of the ocean floor
What is the continental slope
The periodic rise and fall of sea level due to the gravitational pull of the moon.
What are tides
Underwater mountains that stand alone. Formed from volcanoes. Some seamounts stick out of the ocean.
What are seamounts?
Looks like a hill, depth increases quickly. Starts at the shelf and ends at the rise.
What is the continental slope
What is Miss Ryan's favorite animal?
Koala
Typically are found where two plates meet
What is the Mid-Ocean ridge
An ocean current off the east coast of the US. Brings warm water from the equator and keeps the east coast warm.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The amount of salt in the ocean
What is salinity
Flat area of the ocean.
What is the Abyssal plain
This area has the most ocean life and is the warmest.
What is the continental shelf?
The region least likely to have life
What are trenches
These mix ocean water and can affect navigational routes.
What are currents
What goes up as depth increases?
What is pressure