This zone is the shallowest and organisms here must be able to live in air and water
What is the intertidal zone?
100
Saltiness of the ocean
What is salinity?
100
This form of pollution can harm both sea life and humans with its mess of hydrocarbons that float on the ocean's surface for months or years.
What is an oil spill?
100
When surface currents meet continents and change direction.
What is continental deflection?
100
Difference between the highest high tide and the lowest low tide
What is tidal range?
200
The deepest zone, in which few organisms live and is completely dark
What is the hadal zone?
200
Solid or liquid water that falls back to Earth
What is precipitation?
200
This is a large garbage patch in the Pacific?
What is the Pacific Trash Gyre?
200
Curving of moving objects due to Earth's rotation
What is Coriolis Effect?
200
When the sun, Earth, and moon form a 90 degree angle
What is neap tide?
300
It includeds the volume of water in the ocean, not including the continental shelf.
What is the oceanic zone?
300
This quantity is high near the ocean's surface, and very low near the bottom (averaging around 2 deg. Celsius)
What is temperature?
300
This is a stye of fishing in which lines of hooks are dragged through the water, often damaging other types of sea life other than what fish are desired.
What is longline fishing?
300
Gulf Stream is an example of one
What is a surface current?
300
The physical characteristic that causes tides
What is gravity?
400
The bottom environment, or the ocean floor and all organisms that live in or on it.
What is the benthic environment?
400
Layer of water extenind from 300 m below sea level to about 700 m below, and the temperature drops rapidly here.
What is the thermocline?
400
Animals accidentally caught and discarded in commercial fishing operations
What is bycatch?
400
The direction in which surface currents flow near the equator
What is from east to west?
400
Surface currents are formed by this
What is wind?
500
Organisms that float at or near the ocean's surface
What is plankton?
500
The ion that is formed from the most commonly dissolved solid in the ocean.
What is chloride ion?
500
Examples are sewage, fertilizers, soaps, and other chemicals that run off into the ocean.
What is non-point source pollution?
500
Periodic change of the location of warm and cool surface water in the Pacific Ocean
What is El Nino?
500
Salinity increasing and density increasing forms these