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Oceans Quiz

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Please label the model using the words below. It goes from 1 to 7 (left to right).

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

Continental Rise, Abyssal Plain, Continental Slope, Mountain, Continental Shelf, Trench, Mid-Ocean Ridge

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2.

What is the most likely reason that sediment covers the ocean floor?

a)

Erosion

b)

Evaporation

c)

Condensation

d)

The fish did it.

3.

The United States is located between what two oceans?

a)

Indian & Artic

b)

Southern & Artic

c)

Atlantic & Pacific

d)

Pacific & Antarctic

4.

What is dissolved oxygen?

a)

The oxygen present in my bathtub.

b)

The amount of oxygen in a glass of Kool-Aid.

c)

The oxygen that is dissolved in the air.

d)

The amount of oxygen present in the ocean.

5.

What is a brinicle?

a)

An animal that gets stuck to boats

b)

A swimming organism

c)

An icicle under the water

d)

Something you put on your pasta

6.

Caused by the gravitational forces between the Sun, Moon and the Earth

a)

Waves

b)

Currents

c)

Tides

7.

As we go deeper in the ocean _____ and _____ increases. _____ disappears and the _____ decreases.

a)

pressure

salinity

Sunlight

temperature

b)

temperature

sunlight

pressure

salinity

c)

girls

boys

wind

sand

d)

waves

fish

birds

water

8.

There three types of organisms in the ocean.

a)

Floating,

Flying and

Resting

b)

Searching,

Lost and

Crying

c)

Swimming,

Diving and

Eating

d)

Non-moving,

Floating and Swimming

9.

Caused by the wind on the surface of the water

a)

Waves

b)

Currents

c)

Tides

10.

There are two types: Surface and Deep water

a)

Waves

b)

Currents

c)

Tides

11.

Waves move water not energy.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

High tide and Low tide occur ___________

a)

Twice a month

b)

Once a day

c)

Twice a day

d)

Once a week

13.

Put the ocean organisms below in order of who eats who from 1 to 6.

Shark

Phytoplankton

Shrimp

Penguin

Herring

Seal

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