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Oceans & Waterways

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How do experts choose the best shipping routes to ship goods across the ocean on a boat?

a)

They study weather patterns

b)

They study currents and wind patterns

c)

They study popular destinations

d)

They study the length of day

2.

How is the ocean food chain like the land food chain?

a)

The bigger organisms eat the smaller organisms

b)

The both have fish

c)

They aren't alike

d)

They all need plants to survive

3.

What might happen if smaller fish had to leave one area of the ocean because the temperature changed?

a)

the plants in that area could not survive

b)

the small fish would eat the plankton

c)

the large animals might lose their food source

d)

the ocean waves might change

4.

How much of the Earth is covered with water in the hydrosphere?

a)

less than 1%

b)

about 2%

c)

about 75%

d)

more than 97%

5.

What would be an appropriate title for this food chain?


Sun - ? - plankton - fish & ocean animals

a)

Land Food Chain

b)

Ocean Food Chain

c)

Life Cycle

d)

Earth Cycle

6.

What is missing from this food chain?


Sun - ? - plankton - fish and ocean animals

a)

microscopic organisms

b)

sharks

c)

whales

d)

decaying plants & animals

7.

Which of the following was Matthew Maury's greatest accomplishment?

a)

He sailed around the world in the fastest time

b)

He discovered the smallest member of the ocean's food chain

c)

He learned how to create maps

d)

He mapped the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean

8.

The process of water moving from the Earth to the atmosphere and back again is called:

a)

Earth cycle

b)

Atmosphere cycle

c)

life cycle

d)

water cycle

9.

Why is the ocean salty?

a)

There's more salt in it

b)

Salt water from rivers and streams carry it there

c)

Rivers & streams carry salty minerals from inland to the ocean

d)

The ocean animals deposit salt there

10.

What happens when the slightest change happens in an ecosystem?

a)

it affects the whole system

b)

it affects part of the system

c)

the ecosystem ignores the change

d)

nothing happens

11.

Tiny fragments of plants and animals falling toward the ocean floor.

a)

plankton

b)

marine snow

c)

ocean

d)

minerals

12.

The process of water moving from Earth to the atmosphere and back again.

a)

life cycle

b)

earth cycle

c)

hydrosphere cycle

d)

water cycle

13.

A word that means ball of water.

a)

lithosphere

b)

atmosphere

c)

hydrosphere

d)

hydroelectric

14.

The process where larger animals eat smaller animals or plants.

a)

food cycle

b)

food chain

c)

food web

d)

foodrosphere

15.

Tiny sea creatures that are part of the food chain in the ocean.

a)

plankton

b)

crabs

c)

sea urchin

d)

Sponge Bob

16.

The process of liquid water changing to water vapor or gas.

a)

condensation

b)

precipitation

c)

water vapor

d)

evaporation

17.

A large, salty body of water.

a)

rivers

b)

lakes

c)

ocean

d)

hydrosphere