Marine Zones and Floor 2023

Which word descries how deep the water is in a given location

• Ocean Trench

• Sediment

• Depth

• Abyssal Plain

As depth increases..........

• Things become shallow

• temperature decreases, pressure increases, and light decreases

• It is more salty

• An Ocean Current

Valleys cut deep into the ocean floor

• Plankton

• Salinity

• Surface Current

• Ocean Trench

Flat, deep, and smooth part of the ocean floor. Cold temperatures are found here.

• Continental Shelf

• Abyssal Plain

• Continental Slope

• Seamounts

Underwater Volcanoes and Mountains?

• Seamounts or Mid- Ocean Ridge

• Mountain Ridge

• Coastal Plains

• Abyssal Plains

gently sloping shelf of land extending from the shoreline to the continental edge

• Continental Slope

• Continental Shelf

• Continental Rise

• Abyssal Plain

Sharp underwater hill connecting the continent to the ocean floor?

• Ocean

• Coral Reef

• Plankton

• Continental Slope

Tiny living creatures that float near the oceans surface and move with currents

• Sea horses

• Plankton

• jelly fish

• sharks

The zone in the oceans layers with the warmest temperatures that is warmed by sunlight and most life exist there?

• Photic Zone

• Depth

• Water temperature

• Mid- Ocean Ridge

Continental Shelf