Ocean Zones Quiz

Can you guess the name of the mysterious layer of the oceans that is permanently dark and lies below the photic zone?

• Is it the aphotic zone?

• Or maybe the photic zone?

• Could it be the surface zone?

• Or is it the intertidal zone?

What do we call the portion of the marine biome that is shallow enough for sunlight to penetrate?

• open ocean

• aphotic zone

• photic zone

• deep zone

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Imagine you're a curious explorer, standing on a beach. Can you tell which zone lies between the high tide and the low tide mark?

• benthic zone

• intertidal zone

• pelagic zone

• abyssal zone

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Imagine you're a tiny fish in the vast ocean. Where would you be swimming and floating around because this area includes the largest life zone in the ocean?

• Pelagic Zone

• Benthic Zone

• Neritic Zone

• Oceanic Zone

Using the picture, match the zone with its characteristic.

• Where you put your beach chair

• Supratidal Zone

• Another name for the ocean floor

• Neritic Zone

• Where you go out on a boat

• Continental Shelf

• Another name for the open ocean

• Oceanic Zone

• Where you stand waist deep in the water

• Benthic Zone

Imagine you're a deep-sea explorer! Can you identify the open water area beyond the continental shelf?

• oceanic zone

• tidal zone

• bahyal zone

• abyssal zone

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Imagine you're a deep-sea diver! Can you guess which zone you'd find the least amount of life in?

• photic

• aphotic

• neritic

• ocean

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Let's dive into the world of oceans! Can you tell where the intertidal zone of oceans is located?

• Does it surround continents?

• Or is it on the coastline?

• Maybe it's where tides rise and fall each day?

• Or is it the open ocean?

Match the following zone with its correct ocean depth.

• Up to 200 m

• Bathypelagic Zone

• 200 - 1000 m

• Hadalpelagic Zone

• 1000 - 4000 m

• Epipelagic Zone

• 6000 - 10,000 m

• Mesopelagic Zone

• 4000 - 6000 m

• Abyssopelagic Zone

Imagine you're a deep-sea diver! Can you arrange these pelagic zones from the ocean's surface to the bottom?

• abyssopelagic, bathypelagic, epipelagic, hadalpelagic, mesopelagic

• epipelagic, bathypelagic, abyssopelagic, mesopelagic, hadalpelagic

• epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathypelagic, abyssopelagic, hadalpelagic

• hadalpelagic, mesopelagic,  epipelagic,     bathypelagic,    abyssopelagic

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