Water Quality and Oceanography 2020

Plant-like plankton is called...

• Photosynthesis

• Phytoplankton

• Decomposer

• Consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which part of the ocean floor is labeled "D"?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Continental Slope

• Blue-Ridge Mountains

• Abyssal Plain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

As the depth of ocean waters increases, the pressure...

• increases (more pressure)

• decreases (less pressure)

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

organisms that live on or in the bottom

• benthos
• neuston
• littoral
• heterotrophs

plankton that lives on the water’s surface

• nekton
• neuston
• infauna
• inflora

shore bottom that is splashed by water but not submerged

• bathyal zone
• continental shelf
• supralittoral zone
• tidal zone

benthic animals that live on the sea floor

• infauna
• epifauna
• inflora
• epiflora

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

organisms that can swim against the ocean’s currents, moving independently

• neuston

• plankton

• nekton

• naphron

In which zone are you most likely to find a Coral Reef?

• Neritic

• Epipelagic

• Abyssopelagic

• Mesopelagic

In which zone would you most likely find Tevnia, a giant tube worm that lives near volcanoes?

• Hadalpelagic

• Neritic

• Intertidal

• Mesopelagic