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Ocean Life
Ocean Floor Features
Tides and Waves
Ocean Quiz
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How do Tsunami's form?
What is an underwater earthquake.
100
Which kind of animals eat what? Example of land animals:Reptiles eat mammals.
What is Nekton eat Plankton.
100
What is Continental Shelf and Slope?
What is Continental Shelf: A sloping area that borders each Continent. Continental Slope:Marked by a steady outline.
100
How are waves formed on the top of the surface?
What is wind.
100
Sea creatures that live on the ocean bottom, or are attached to one spot their adult lives are what?
What is Benthos.
200
How do waves move deeper in the Ocean?
What is density. The hot rises and cold sinks lower causing a circular rotation.
200
Do Plakton eat Plankton if so which kind eat which?
What is Yes. Zooplakton eat Phytoplankton.
200
1.) Peaks of mountains that do not break the surface? 2.)As the lava cools islands can form so it's peak is above water?
What is 1.)Sea Mounts 2.)Volcanic Islands.
200
Why is the ocean so important to us?
What is because the currents alter the weather.
200
Free swimming sea creatures belong to a class of animals called.......?
What is Nekton.
300
What percent of the World is made up by Oceans?
What is 70%
300
What is Kelp?
What is Benthos. Because it is stuck to the ground for its adult life.
300
Abyssal Plain?
What is Thick Layers of dead organisms that come from the surface and covers the flat plains.
300
Does the moon and sun help the tides?
What is Yes
300
The distance from the crest to the trough is called what?
What is Wave Height or Amplitude.
400
What are the Major Oceans?
What is the Pacific, Artic, Indian, and the Atlantic.
400
Describe Benthos and give 3 examples.
What is animals that live on the bottom of the ocean or attached there their adult lives. Examples: Clams, Kelp, Starfish, Sea Pen, Sea Star, Octopus, Sand Dollar, Brittle Star, Eelgrass, Lobster, Sponges, ect.
400
Can be Earths deepest canyons?
What is Trenches.
400
How do low and High tides form?
What is The direction of the sun and the moon. If the moon is on that side then that is when the high tides come. When the moon is not there it causes low tides.
400
The strong current that primarily affect Florida's weather is called what?
What is The Gulf Stream.
500
Define Salinity.
What is the saltiness of a body of water.
500
Do Nekton eat each other and if so give an example.
What is Yes. Dolphin eats Tuna.
500
Chain of undersea mountains that consists of many peaks?
What is Mid-Ocean Ridges.
500
What are tides?
What is the rise and fall if the Earth's waters on it's coastlines are called tides.
500
Bonus! What Ocean floor feature is responsible for seafloor spreading?
What is Mid Ocean Ridges.