Oceans: Characteristics and Climate Effects

Which ocean zone supports the most diverse life including plants and herbivores?

• Bathypelagic

• Abyssopelagic

• Biopelagic

• Epipelagic

Which ocean zone lies 200 meters below the surface where only dim light reaches and many organisms are adapted to the 'twilight'?

• Hadopelagic

• Mesopelagic

• Epipelagic

• Vampirpelagic

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Which ocean zone lies between 4 and 6 thousand meters below the surface, covers 60% of the Earth, has no light, low oxygen, and unique but few living things?

• Abyssopelagic

• Hadopelagic

• Mesopelagic

• The midnight zone

Select the correctly identified ocean floor features.

• A. Seamount

  B. Abyssal Plain

  C. Mid-ocean Ridge

  G. Continental Shelf

• C. Abyssal Plain

  D. Mid-ocean Ridge

  F. Continental Shelf

  G. Trench

• B. Continental Slope

  C. Continental Shelf

  D. Seamount

  E. Abyssal Plain

• D. Mid-ocean trench

  E. Seamount

  F. Abyssal Plain

  G. Continental slope

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Wha type of tide would this arrangement of earth-moon-sun create?

• full moon tide
• new moon tide
• neap tide
• spring tide

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Select all the correct statements

Tides are...

• produced mainly by Moon’s gravitational pull

• affected by the Sun’s gravitational pull

• rising and falling waters caused by Earth’s gravitational pull

• cyclic rising and falling waters which follow the Moon's orbit around Earth.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Select the true statement.

• High tides occur at A and C due to the Moon's gravitational pull.

• Low tides occur at A and C due to the Moon's gravitational push.

• There is always a tidal bulge at B and D due to the Sun's gravity.

• High tide happens at C because it is closest to the Moon and A, B, and D are low tides.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Ocean waves created by the wind that look like ripples across the surface are what type?

• White caps

• Tidal

• Ripple waves

• Capillary waves

When wind speed ______, the crest of surface waves become higher and can become unbalanced so they break or spill over, forming _____ ____.

• decreases,

  tsunamis

• increases,

  white caps

• increases,

  breakers

• decreases,

  white caps

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What type of tides would this arrangement of earth-moon-sun create?

• neap tide
• spring tide
• new moon tide
• full moon tide

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4