M3L3 Vocab Review

small pieces of rock that are moved and deposited by water, wind, glaciers, and gravity.

• tectonic plates

• erosion

• sediment

• fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

area of a lake or pond closest to the shore

• littoral zone

• limnetic zone

• longitude zone

• latitude zone

well-lit, open-water area of a lake or pond.

• intertidal zone

• profundal zone

• limnetic zone

• littoral zone

free-floating autotrophs and heterotrophs that live in freshwater and marine ecosystems

• carcass

• minnow

• fossil

• plankton

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

deepest, coldest area of a large take with little light and limited biodiversity

• limnetic zone

• profundal zone

• intertidal zone

• littoral zone

narrow band of shoreline where the ocean and land meet that is alternately submerged and exposed and is home to constantly changing communities

• Intertidal zone
• Shoreline zone
• Coastal belt
• Tidal zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

all the water that in the open ocean that is not in the intertidal zone or very near the bottom zone

• pelagic zone
• intertidal zone
• benthic zone
• abyssal zone

open-ocean zone shallow enough for sunlight to penetrate.

• sunlit zone
• deep-sea zone
• twilight zone
• photic zone

open-ocean zone through which sunlight cannot penetrate.

• Sunlit zone
• Midnight zone
• Aphotic zone
• Twilight zone

deepest, very cold region of the open ocean

• Hadopelagic zone
• Twilight zone
• Midnight zone
• Abyssal zone