Get in the Zone
See the Light!
Oh Zo-oh you didn't!
Jellyfish Jam
Eat and Be Eaten
100
This zone is about 660 ft (200 m) at its deepest points
What is the sunlit zone?
100
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
What are all the colors that together make up white light?
100
These drifters may not be able to swim well, but that what makes them who they are!
What are plankton?
100
While often mistaken for one organism, it is actually a colony of many organisms.
What is the Portuguese Man-of-War?
100
A diagram that shows all the feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
200
This ocean zone extends from 660 ft. (200 m) down to 3,300 ft (1000 m).
What is the twilight zone?
200
Red, orange, yellow, green and violet.
What are the colors of light absorbed by shallow water, making ocean water appear blue?
200
While phytoplankton are plant-like, these drifting critters are animals, or animal-like organisms.
What are zooplankton?
200
The only critter capable of eating a Portuguese man-of-war.
What is the blue sea slug?
200
The animals that eat plants/ producers.
What are primary consumers?
300
This zone starts at 3,300 ft. depth.
What is the dark zone?
300
These important sea organisms require sunlight to make their food.
What are phytoplankton?
300
This is the name for singe-celled zooplankton.
What are protozoans?
300
Mostly drifting with the current and contracting its body to push water behind it.
What is the form of locomotion jellyfish use to get around?
300
The animals that eat the animals that eat plants.
What are secondary consumers?
400
Most marine animals are found in this zone.
What is the sunlit zone?
400
These tiny organelles are found inside plants and plant-like organisms' cells. They are also where photosynthesis happens inside the cell.
What are chloroplasts?
400
These are tiny crustaceans are larger than the single-celled zooplankton.
What are copepods?
400
Flicking its combs along its body to push itself through water.
What is the the form of locomotion used by the comb jelly?
400
The base of the ocean food web.
What is phytoplankton?
500
The boundary between cold dense water and warm, less dense water.
What is the thermocline?
500
This pigment found inside plants and other photosynthesizers absorbs the sunlight energy to power photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
500
Besides copepods, these small animals are important zooplankton in the marine food chain.
What are the LARVA of fish, crabs and clams?
500
Tubular, transparent creatures who breed by producing long chains of identical clones of themselves.
What are salps?
500
This diagram shows that most energy from food is used up before it moves up to the next level of the food chain.
What is the energy/food pyramid?