Ocean Layers Practice

What is the name of the layer of the ocean that has the most life? 

• Oceanic
• Twilight
• Sunlight
• Abyss

This is the zone of the ocean that is the deepest. 

• abyssal
• trenches 
• midnight
• oceanic

Which zone will you find the warmest waters? 

• twilight
• abyssal 
• midnight
• sunlight

What is the name of the layer of the ocean that has the most life?

• Midnight (bathypelagic)

• Twilight (mesopelagic)

• Sunlight (epipelagic zone)

• Abyss (abyssopelagic)

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

As oceans become deeper, the water pressure ___________________.

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

Which layer of the ocean starts at 600 feet and extends to 3000 feet?

• sunlight (epipelagic zone)

• twilight (mesopelagic)

• midnight (bathypelagic)

• trenches (hadalpelagic)

The ocean layers are divided by the amount of __________________ in each layer.

• animals

• salt

• light

• people

MOST sealife lives in the:

• Sunlight zone

• Twilight zone

• Midnight zone

• Deep zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

How much sunlight does the twilight zone get?

• None at all

• Almost as much as the sunlight zone

• A lot in the summer but none in the winter

• The small amount that penetrates the sunlight zone

What is the deepest zone of the ocean called?

• Sunlight

• Twilight

• Abyss

• Trench