Ocean Zones Unit Exam

Coastal organisms that can tolerate large changes in salinity are known as ________.

• stenothermal
• eurythermal
• euryhaline
• stenohaline

Which adaptation would be best suited for life in the supratidal zone?

• Alternating periods of dry and submersion
• Bioluminescence
• Strong attachment
• Salt tolerant plants and animals

Neritic marine environments would be found ________.

• associated with continental shelves
• at mid-ocean ridges
• deep in the ocean basin
• in subduction zones
• within a deep-sea trench

The photic zone is confined to which ________. (Choose 2)

• abyssopelagic zone
• bathypelagic zone
• epipelagic zone
• mesopelagic zone
• neritic province

The subtidal zone is the area ________.

• above the highest tide
• below the intertidal zone on the continental shelf
• between the highest high tide and the lowest low tide
• beyond the continental shelf

The ________ zone consists only of deep trenches along the margins of continents.

• abyssopelagic
• bathypelagic
• hadalpelagic
• intertidal
• neritic

The ________ zone extends from a depth of 1000 to 4000 meters.

• abyssopelagic
• bathypelagic
• hadopelagic
• intertidal
• neritic

The zone between high and low tides coincides with the ________ zone.

• benthic
• intertidal
• neritic
• subtidal
• supratidal

The ________ zone approximately encompasses the continental shelf.

• benthic
• intertidal
• neritic
• subtidal
• supratidal

The ________ is covered with water only during periods of extremely high tides and when tsunami or large storm waves break on the shore.

• benthic
• intertidal
• neritic
• subtidal
• supratidal

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4