Epipelagic

Imagine you're a deep-sea diver! You're swimming in an ocean zone that extends from the surface to 200 meters down. The temperature changes quite a bit depending on where you are and what time of year it is. The best part? There's plenty of sunlight, so lots of plants can grow. Can you guess which ocean zone you're in?

• Aphotic

• Oceanic

• Intertidal

• Epipelagic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Imagine you're a deep-sea diver! Can you arrange these pelagic zones from the ocean's surface to the bottom?

• abyssopelagic, bathypelagic, epipelagic, hadalpelagic, mesopelagic

• epipelagic, bathypelagic, abyssopelagic, mesopelagic, hadalpelagic

• epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathypelagic, abyssopelagic, hadalpelagic

• hadalpelagic, mesopelagic,  epipelagic,     bathypelagic,    abyssopelagic

Match the following zone with its correct ocean depth.

• 1000 - 4000 m

• Mesopelagic Zone

• Up to 200 m

• Bathypelagic Zone

• 6000 - 10,000 m

• Epipelagic Zone

• 4000 - 6000 m

• Hadalpelagic Zone

• 200 - 1000 m

• Abyssopelagic Zone

Which zone extends from 0 to 200 meters and allows photosynthesis to take place?

• Mesopelagic zone

• Epipelagic zone

• Bathypelagic zone

• Abyssopelagic zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Upper layer of water extending to depth of 200 meters; in the photic or sunlit zone

• neritic zone

• hadalpelagic zone

• mesopelagic zone

• epipelagic zone

• D is the Supratidal Zone

• D is the Benthic Zone

• D is the Neritic Zone

• D is the Pelagic Zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Which statement about the Epipelagic Zone (E) is true?

• Commercial fishing takes place there

• It is considered the ocean floor

• It receives the least sunlight

• It receives the most sunlight

Select all zones that are PHOTIC (receives ample sunlight):

• Oceanic

• Neritic

• Hadalpelagic

• Epipelagic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is the correct order from the ocean surface to the ocean floor?

• epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathypelagic,

  abyssopelagic,

  hadalpelagic

• epipelagic,

  hadalpelagic

  abyssopelagic,

  mesopelagic, bathypelagic,

• bathypelagic,

  abyssopelagic,

  hadalpelagic

  epipelagic, mesopelagic,

• hadalpelagic,

  abyssopelagic

  bathypelagic,

  mesopelagic,

  epipelagic,

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

• L is the Pelagic Zone

• L is the Benthic Zone

• L is the Supratidal Zone

• L is the Oceanic Zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3