Ocean Vocabulary Review

An illustration that shows how nutrients and energy are passed from organism to organism in an ecosystem is called a....

• food web

• food chain

• predator

• carnivore

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Food chains connected together to show the flow of energy between organisms in an ecosystem is called a....

• food chain

• food web

• connecting web

• spider web

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Plant-like plankton

• Zooplankton

• Spongebob's friend

• Phytoplankton

• baleen

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Tiny invertebrates that are found need the surface of many different bodies of water

• Phytoplankton

• Zooplankton

• Plankton Squarepants

• Baleen

An animals role in their community - what it eats and what eats it

• Population

• Community

• Adaptation

• Niche

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

The part of the ocean floor closest to the continent and has the shallowest water

• Ocean floor

• Continental rise

• Continental slope

• Continental shelf

The steep drop on the ocean floor

• Continental shelf

• Continental rise

• Continental slope

• Abyssal plain

The small mound of sediment, sand, and mud that is at the bottom of the continental slope

• Continental slope

• Abyssal plain

• Continental rise

• Continental shelf

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The flattest part of the ocean floor, full of sediment and mud

• Abyssal plain

• Continental slope

• Continental rise

• Trench

The deepest part of the ocean floor, formed when two plates collide and one goes under the other

• Abyssal plain

• Ridge

• Seamount

• Trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3