Exploring the Ocean - Zones, Structures, & technology

This zone has the highest salinity and exposure to constant light. It also has extreme changes in temperature

• aphotic

• Intertidal

• Neritic

• Benthic

This zone is always over the continental shelf. You will often find coral reefs and kelp forest here.

• Intertidal

• Neritic

• Open Ocean

• Photic

This zone is 65% of the ocean.

• Intertidal

• Neritic

• Open Ocean or Oceanic

• Benthic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

You can find all the different oceanic structures in this zone.

• Intertidal

• Neritic

• Oceanic

• Benthic

This zone has less than 1% of sunlight. The pressure is VERY high and the temperature is VERY cold.

• Photic

• Aphotic

• Benthic

• Oceanic

This zone is also called the euphotic zone. It has the most animal life in it but it is one of the smallest.

• Photic

• Aphotic

• Benthic

• Intertidal

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What type of marine life form is pictured here?

• Plankton

• Nekton

• Benthos

• Bacteria

What type of marine life form is pictured here?

• Plankton

• Nekton

• Benthos

• Fish

What type of marine life form is pictured here?

• Plankton

• Nekton

• Benthos

• Crabs

What factors make it difficult to explore the ocean floor?

• high pressure and cold temperature

• low pressure and high temperature

• the different types of structures

• the different gases