Racin Basins
The names of the 4 ocean Basins
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, and Indian?
The Strip of land that separates the coast from the Ocean
What is the Shore?
Bodies of Water that seperate the continents
What are Oceans?
Animals in this zone spend their time half in the water half in the air.
What is the Intertidal zone
He lives in a pineapple under the sea
Who is Spongebob square pants.
Because they are all connected, Oceanographers say there is only this man Oceans
What is One Ocean.
Steep, submerged edges of Continental plates
What is Continental Shelf?
Having to do with the deepest ocean enviroments
What is Abyssal?
Defined as open ocean enviroment. Clear water with temperate conditions. Around 100 to 200m deep.
What is the Photic zone
This young clownfish has one fin that is smaller than the other
Who is Nemo
The percentage of the Earth that is covered in water.
What is 71%
The reletivily flat Ocean floor
What is the Abyssal Plain?
The always changing height of the Oceans Surface.
What is local sea level
The deepest zone of the ocean. Little is know about what lives here. Part of the Abyssal Zone
What is the Hadal Zone
This sea horror movie is about a man eating Shark.
"We're gonna need a bigger boat"
What is Jaws
Catastrophic event that happened about 5500 years ago that shaped the surface of the Earth
What is the flood.
Incredibly deep and steep cracks in the Earths Crust. Usually present near where subduction occurs.
What are Trenches?
The largest living animal on the earth today.
What is the Blue whale?
Animals here live in complete darkness. Some can create their own light using bioluminescence. Means "lack of light"
What is the Aphotic Zone
This disney movie stars a young princess who wasnt to leave the ocean to become a human
What is the little mermaid
Young Earth geologists believe Earth began as this type of planet.
What is a water planet?
Important marnine geologic features that form from the activity of of animals.
What is a Coral Reef
One of the two vast process opperating at the surface of the Earth to recycle organic elements.
What is the Carbon/Nitrogen Cycle
Between the Low tide of the shore and the Continental Shelf
What is the Littoral Zone
This Ocean adventure features "The Rock" as a mischevieous Demigod who never says thank you, but always says "Your Welcome"
What is Moana