Ocean Unit

What is an adaptation?

• A feature or behavior that helps an animal survive.
• The food that an animal eats.
• How energy moves in a food web.
• How animals evolve throughout time.

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How are fossils created?

• Traces of organisms get turned into stone.
• Dead organisms are quickly buried for millions of years.
• Animals get trapped.
• All of the above

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Which layer formed first?

• Rock Layer W
• Rock Layer X
• Rock Layer Y
• Rock Layer Z

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Fossils give us evidence about which of the following?

• plants and animals that lived long ago
• how weathering and erosion break down rocks
• the other planets in our solar system
• the transfer of energy from one form  to another

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Water travels in definite paths around the ocean called

• Highways
• Currents
• Rivers
• Streams

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tiny algae and animals that float in water and are carried by waves and currents

• Plankton
• Food Web
• bioluminescence

This is the study of the physical properties of ocean

• Natural Resources
• Oceanography
• Bioluminescence
• Chemosynthesis

In what zone does approximately 90% of all ocean life live?

• sunlight
• twilight
• midnight

As oceans become deeper, the water pressure ___________________.

• increases
• decreases
• stays the same

Which zone has the warmest water temperature?

• sunlight
• twilight
• midnight

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