Ocean Sunlight vocabulary practice

an instrument used for viewing very small items

• microscope

• photosynthesis

• oxygen

• pasture

plants (such as grass) grown for feeding farm animals

• nutrients

• phytoplankton

• pasture

• microscope

a chemical element found in the air as a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is essential to life

• photosynthesis

• oxygen

• pasture

• microscope

element found in food that helps living things grow and stay healthy

• photosynthesis

• nutrients

• oxygen

• pasture

the process through which green plants use sunlight to make nutrients from water and carbon dioxide

• photosynthesis

• nutrients

• bulky

• phytoplankton

ocean plant life that you can only see through a microscope

• photosynthesis

• pasture

• phytoplankton

• oxygen

________ are the billion tiny plants drifting in our seas.

• phytoplankton

• oxygen

• microscope

• nutrients

The process of __________ generates energy and when burned, plants release their energy.

• oxygen

• pasture

• photosynthesis

• phytoplankton

The scientist used a __________ to study the phytoplankton.

• oxygen

• nutrient

• microscope

• photosynthesis

Phytoplankton is considered the __________ of the sea.

• photosynthesis

• microscope

• oxygen

• pasture