Ocean Features
These properties affect how organisms interact in the ocean.
👉 What are geological and physical properties?
Ocean water is made of these three things
👉 What are gases, water, and dissolved solids?
Ocean currents are mainly caused by this.
👉 What are wind patterns?
These serve as producers in the ocean.
👉 What are plants and algae?
Name one major feature of the ocean floor.
👉 What is continental shelf/slope/rise, abyssal plain, or trench?
This describes how the ocean’s depth is not the same everywhere.
👉 What is the ocean’s depth variation?
This is the measure of dissolved salts in water.
👉 What is salinity?
Temperature differences also cause this.
👉 What are ocean currents?
Organisms are grouped based on this.
👉 What is movement?
This is the steep drop after the continental shelf.
👉 What is the continental slope?
These are the deepest parts of the ocean.
👉 What are ocean trenches?
Name one thing that affects salinity.
👉 What is evaporation, depth, melting ice, or runoff?
These affect how ocean water mixes.
👉 What are currents?
These are floating organisms.
👉 What is plankton?
This is the flat, deep ocean floor.
👉 What is the abyssal plain?
This part of the ocean is shallow and near land.
👉 What is the continental shelf?
Marine organisms need these to survive.
👉 What are dissolved gases?
Ocean currents affect these living groups.
👉 What are plant and animal populations?
Organisms stuck to surfaces are called this type.
👉 What are non-moving (attached) organisms?
This connects the slope to the deep ocean floor.
👉 What is the continental rise?
Most of the ocean floor is covered with this.
👉 What are sediments?
Name one dissolved gas found in ocean water.
👉 What is oxygen, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide?
These are affected by ocean currents when traveling.
👉 What are navigation routes?
All organisms are part of this system.
👉 What is the food chain?
List all 5 major ocean floor features.
👉 What are continental shelf, slope, rise, abyssal plain, and trenches?