Literacy 3 Bottom of the Sea Vocab

living things

• organisms

• fissures

• minerals

• geyser

cracks

• organisms

• fissures

• minerals

• vents

Scientists have discovered that _________ can live in the deep ocean.

• organisms

• chimney

• fissures

• diverse

a hole in the earth's crust that shoots up water and steam

• geyser

• harsh

• diverse

• hierarchy

Steam and gas can shoot out of ________ under the water.

• fissures

• minerals

• organisms

• hierarchy

A hydrothermal vent is like a _______ on the ocean floor.

• geyser

• penetrate

• organism

• diverse

an opening

• vent

• diverse

• harsh

• penetrate

The hot sea water in the _______ does not boil.

• vent

• minerals

• penetrate

• hierarchy

chemical substances found on earth

• minerals

• fissures

• organisms

• chimneys

Fine _________ are formed when fluids mix with ice-cold sea waters.

• chemicals

• minerals

• diverse

• fissures