C13S3 Quiz

scientists divide ________ into three main groups

• marine

• nekton

• abyssal

• fish

the mass of mostly microscopic organisms that float or drift freely in freshwater and marine environment

• benthos

• oceanic zone

• plankton

• hadal zone

what is the benthic environment?

• the intertidal zone between low and high tides

• the region and all the organisms near the ocean floor

• the region near the ocean floor

• the plankton zone

how is the sublittoral zone more stable than the intertidal zone

• the sublittoral zones organisms do not have to cope with change

• the sublittoral zone's plants and animals stay in the upper regions

• the sublittoral zone's temperature, water pressure, and sunlight are more constant

• the sublittoral zone extends to the continental shelf

zone covering the entire ocean floor past the continental shelf

• oceanic zone

• abyssal zone

• hadal zone

• neritic zone

largest ecological zone of the ocean

• hadal zone

• abyssal zone

• bathyal zone

• intertidal zone

shallowest zone of the benthic environment

• intertidal zone

• shallow water zone

• hadal zone

• oceanic zone

zone between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain

• neritic zone

• oceanic zone

• bathyal zone

• hadal zone

deepest benthic zone

• hadal zone

• abyssal zone

• bathyal zone

• oceanic zone

zone that cover the continental shelf

• bathyal zone

• abyssal zone

• neritic zone

• hadal zone