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Geography of the ocean floor
Currents
Where they live
Food
Potpourri
100
A deep valley, or canyon, in the ocean floor
What is a Sea Trench
100
Three things that cause currents
What is wind patterns, temperature and salinity.
100
The three categories of marine life based on where plants and animals have adapted to live
What is Plankton, Nekton, Benthos
100
When does a food chain begin?
What is when an animal eats a plant or another animal.
100
Oceans cover this amount of the earth's surface.
What is 70%
200
The flat area of the ocean floor
What is the abyssal plain
200
When the sun evaporates the water leaving the salt behind it gives the surface water a higher ________. This increased __________ causes the water to become more_________ so it __________. This movement causes currents.
What is salinity, salinity, dense, sinks.
200
All the plants and animals that live at the bottom of the ocean
What is benthos
200
How all food chains begin
What is with a producer.
200
Having to do with the ocean.
What is Marine?
300
The part of the ocean that plunges down to depths of over two miles
What is the Continental Slope
300
Ocean waters that travel in huge circular patterns
What is Currents
300
All the free swimming animals that live in the ocean
What is Nekton
300
Feeds on decaying remains of plants and animals that sink to the ocean floor.
What is a decomposer.
300
The botton of a wave
What is a trough?
400
The underwater edge of a continent that gently slopes into the ocean
What is the continental shelf
400
Colder water is ____________ than warmer water
What is denser
400
Organisms that move passively with the water currents and inhabit the upper layers of the water column
What is plankton
400
When two or more food chains overlap and connect.
What is a Food Web?.
400
The daily rise and fall of the surface of the ocean caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun.
What is Tides.
500
The part of the ocean that contains a build up of sediment and stretches from the bottom of the continental slope down to the deep sea floor floor.
What is Continental rise
500
This is the Atlantic Ocean's main warm water surface current.
What is the Gulf Stream.
500
The type of adaptation that includes how they move, feed, defend themselves and reproduce.
What is behavioral adaptations.
500
An animal that eats a plant or another animal.
What is a composer.
500
Two examples of adaptaions that marine life who live in the polar regions may have.
What is a natural antifreeze in the blood and blubber.