Oceans Vocabulary Quiz

Organisms that drift in the sea.

• Benthos

• Nekton

• Plankton

The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.

• nekton

• habitat

• benthos

• terrestrial

A detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment.

• food chain

• benthos

• food web

• plankton

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Area of the ocean where light reaches all parts and photosynthesis happens. From low tide mark until the edge of the continental shelf.

• Intertidal Zone

• Benthic Zone

• Oceanic Zone

• Neritic Zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

The region of the ocean where the land is sometimes submerged in water and sometimes exposed to the atmosphere.

• Intertital Zone

• Neritic Zone

• Oceanic Zone

• Benthic Zone

The bottom of the ocean or the sea floor. Organisms here live by scavenging and from chemosynthesis.

• Intertidal Zone

• Neritic Zone

• Oceanic Zone

• Benthic Zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organisms that swim in the open ocean.

• Plankton

• Nekton

• Benthos

• aquatic

The region of the open sea beyond the edge of the continental shelf and includes 65% of the ocean's completely open water.

• Intertidal Zone

• Neritic Zone

• Oceanic Zone

• Benthic Zone

Organisms found on the bottom, or in the bottom sediments, of sea, lake, or other body of water.

• Plankton

• Nekton

• Benthos

• upwelling

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A ringlike system of ocean currents rotating clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

• currents

• gyre

• temperature

• estuary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6