Composition and Structure of Earth’s Oceans Quiz

Earth is called the “water planet” and also the

• dark planet
• green planet
• blue planet
• abyssal plain

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Which zone do plants not grow and there is no light called

• Twilight
• Red
• Surface
• Deep

Scientists divide oceans into distinct regions, or zones, based on physical characteristics. Name the characteristics

• the amount of sunlight, temperature, salinity & density
• a continental plate, a deep canyon, or trench
• plains, plateaus, canyons, and mountains.

When water vapor in the atmosphere cools and condenses into a liquid.

• perspiration
• evaporation
• condensation
• precipitation

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Tiny droplets of liquid combine and form

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Most deep sea animals, such as the squid make their own light in the chemical process called

• Bioluminescence
• Neon-like
• Photogenics

When tectonic plates move, new oceans form and old oceans disappear.

• True
• False

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The Salinity of seawater changes in areas where rivers enter the ocean, such as an

• tributary
• estuary
• upwelling
• lake

The part of an ocean basin next to a continent is called a

• continental shelf
• continental slope
• continental margin
• continental rise

The ___________ Ocean surrounds Antarctica. It’s the 4th largest ocean. Ice covers some of its surface all year.

• Southern
• Arctic
• Atlantic