Oceans Quiz

Match the scientific names of the ocean zones to their common name

• Sunlight zone

• Mesopelagic

• Midnight zone

• Epipelagic

• Twilight zone

• Abyssopelagic

• Hadal zone

• Bathypelagic

• Abyssal zone

• Hadalpelagic

Answer explanation

Match the depths and abiotic factor to each zone (2 answers per zone)

Groups:

(a) Epipelagic

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(b) Mesopelagic

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(c) Bathypelagic

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(d) Abyssopelagic

• Receives the most sunlight

• Zone directly above abyssal plains

• Dimly lit zone

• Surface - 200m

• Depth range: 200m - 1000m

• Depth range: 4,000m - 6,000m

• First zone that receives no sunlight

• Depth range: 1000m - 4000m

Which of the following is a subset of oceanography?

• Astronomy

• Volcanology

• Marine Biology

• Meteorology

What is one possible source of water that formed the oceans?

• The Sun

• The Moon

• Rain

• Comets

97% of Earth's water is found in the oceans.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What percentage of Earth's surface is covered by oceans?

• 71%

• 81%

• 61%

• 91%

Place the Oceans in order from largest to smallest

• Indian

• Arctic

• Southern

• Pacific

• Atlantic

The average height of the ocean's surface

• Ocean level

• Sea level

• Ocean height

• Sea height

List 1 kind of tool in oceanography and provide an example

The measure of the amount of dissolved salts in seawater

• Salience

• Solemnity

• Salinity

• Saline