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Motion of the Ocean
Floor Features
Zones of the Ocean
Ocean Ecosystem
Chemistry
100
A disturbance seen on the surface of water usually caused by wind
What is a wave?
100

The steep sloping area between the continental shelf and the continental rise

What is the continental slope?

100

The zone where most plant and animal life can be found.

What is: the sunlight zone?

100

Plankton make there own food. They have this role in the ocean ecosystem.

What are: producers?

100
This much of the surface of the Earth is covered by oceans.
What is: 70%?
200
These are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon.
What are tides?
200

A deep cut in the ocean floor cause by two plate colliding where one plate subducts under the other

What is an ocean trench?

200

Water in the midnight zone has the most salt. The amount of salt is called this.

What is: salinity?

200

Organisms with bioluminescence typically live in this ocean zone.

What is: the midnight zone?

200

The smallest particle

What is an atom?

300

What are the three ocean motions?

What are tides, currents, and waves?

300
This is the wide flat area that extends out from the bottom of the continental slope.
What is the abyssal plain?
300
This is how water with a high salinity compares to water with a low salinity.
What is: more dense?
300

Energy for a food web begins with this.

What is: the sun?

300

A combination of two things where all parts are visible and that can be easily separated.

What is: a mixture?

400

These cause surface ocean currents.

What is: the wind?

400

Long mountain chains that run along the ocean floor; formed from volcanic activity

What are mid ocean ridges or seamonts?

400
This is what happens to temperature as you go deeper into the ocean.
What is: decreases?
400

Bacteria and worms break down organisms and return the nutrients back into the ocean ecosystem. They have this role in the ocean food web. 

What are:decomposers?

400

A combination of two things that cannot be easily separated

What is: a solution?

500
This causes deep ocean currents.
What is: change in temperature and salinity?
500

The largest underwater mountain range 

What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?

500
This is what happens to water pressure as you go deeper into the ocean.
What is: increases?
500

In an ocean food web, what happens if one organism goes extinct?

The rest of the food web will fall apart due to overpopulation of some species and organisms competing for a limited food source.

500

A solution that where the materials are evenly dispersed.

What is: a homogeneous solution?