True or False: The continental shelf is relatively shallow?
What part of the ocean floor is deep, smooth, and flat?
A build up of sediment and rock at the bottom of the continental slope is called?
Deep, Narrow Canyons on the ocean floor are called?
The shore zone is where the land and the ocean meet. The ocean floor of the shore zone is called what?
Most of the oceans living creatures live in this light zone?
This helps to make the continental shelf rich in marine life?
What two colors are most animals in the deep ocean?
Many animals do not live in this light zone because of the high pressure and darkness?
What happens to light and temperature as you go deeper into the ocean?
This organisms produces much of Earth's Oxygen?
Angler fish use this light tool to reel in prey.
True or False: Marine Organisms are dependent on the dissolved gases in the ocean for survival?
Fish would eventually die off if this organisms died?
Animals/organisms have these to survive in their environment?
What three things influence where organisms live in the ocean?
What is a river-like movement of water within a larger body of water?
What are waves formed by?
What two things are currents caused by?
The amount of salt in the ocean is called what?
What percent of Earth do oceans cover?
What is the ocean's mountain range called?
True or False: Off shore drilling for oil and natural gas are HARMFUL to the ocean.
What are the following examples of coral reef, salt marshes, and estuaries?
Left behind in the ocean, this can cut and kill sea creatures?
True
Abyssal Plain
Continental rise
Ocean Trench
The Continental Shelf
Sunlight Zone
Sunlight
Red and Orange
Abyss/Trench
Light decreases and temperature decreases
Phytoplankton
bioluminescence
True
Phytoplankton
Adaptations
Light, Pressure, and Temperature
Current
Wind
Wind and water density
Salinity
70%
Mid-ocean ridge
True
Marine Habitats
Fishing Line
