Marine Life
What is the largest animal in the ocean?
Blue Whale
What is it called when water becomes a solid?
freezing
What are 3 underwater ocean zones?
Euphotic, disphotic, aphotic
What is the largest island?
Greenland
What are tiny plants or animals that float or drift in ocean water?
Plankton
What is the slowest fish?
Dwarf Seahorse
What is a hurricane in an ocean called?
cyclone
What zone is the shallower part of the ocean?
neritic zone
What is the deepest part of the ocean called?
mariana trench
How much of earth's surface is covered by water?
70%
How many species of ocean fish exist?
19,000-20,000
What are benthos?
Marine animals that live on the ocean floor
What is the aphotic zone also called?
the midnight zone
What is the place where one tectonic plate slides under called?
subduction
What is the deepest point in the Indian Ocean called?
Java trench
What are organisms that live in open water?
nekton
What is it called when water molecules bond to other water molecules at 90 degrees?
cohesion
The area between the high and low tide is called?
intertidal zone
What is the scientific name for the ocean floor?
benthic zone
What is the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon?
location
What is the fastest fish?
Sailfish
What is the hydrosphere?
All the water on the earth
What is the zone that is part of the ocean that closest to the shore?
Littoral zone
What country has the largest coastline?
Canada
What are the four branches of oceanography?
geological, chemical, physical, and marine science