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Flashcards by mellowsmiley122, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by mellowsmiley122
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| Question | Answer |
| What zone is most marine life found in? | Neritic Zone and upper levels of the oceanic zone Because surface waters are warmer there, photic zone, nutrients |
| What is the ocean floor like? | varied and has submarine canyons, atolls, and mid-ocean ridges |
| a bathymetric technique that differentiates between multiple layers of the ocean bottom | seismic reflection |
| The region submarine canyons are usually found | continental margin |
| The environment marine organisms that are euryhaline would most likely be found- | coastal estuary |
| True or False temperature is a significant life-limiting factor in the ocean depths | True |
| describes the pelagic zone | all the open water of the ocean |
| the zone that has warm waters, rich in marine life | neritic |
| the depth that light stops penetrating the ocean | 200 m |
| the body shape or adaptation that is best suited for life in the pelagic zone | gas filled bag or swim bladder |
| the habitat that has a water level that changes with the tide | salt marsh |
| the environment where animals with chemosynthetic bacteria embedded in their tissues would most likely be found | hydrothermal vent community |
| the region where the majority of all resources are | continental shelf |
| one of the most common resources that is extracted from the ocean | oil |
| technology that is useful for locating schools of commercial fish | sonar and satellite imagery |
| the seafloor and its inhabitants | the benthic zone |
| the area that is above water at low tide and under water at high tide (land between high and low tides) | intertidal |
| salinity | the concentration of dissolved salts in water |
| plains on the deep ocean floor (is dark and unchanging) | abyssal zone |
| 0 - 200 m deep (in the ocean) | epipelagic zone |
| all open water of the ocean | pelagic zone |
| The three oceanic zones | intertidal, benthic, palagic |
| where temperature and sunlight don't change often | sublittoral |
| areas along the mid-oceanic ridges where water gets superheated from magma below and escapes into the ocean waters. | hydrothermal vents |
| a compound consisting of a lattice (or "cage") of water molecules with gas molecules occupying holes or cavities in the lattice | gas hydrate |
| the removal of salt from seawater | desalination |
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