Marine Life | Environments | The Ecological Zones | Sea Animals | General Facts |
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What marine life has organisms that live on or in the ocean floor called?
benthos
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Which environment is actually a zone?
The Pelagic Environment
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Which zone is the deepest ecological zone?
The Hadal Zone
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Animals such as sponges, brachiopods, sea stars, echinoids, and octopuses are all common in what zone?
the Bathyal Zone
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What are hot water vents, that organisms such as tube worms live called?
Black Smokers
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What marine life has organisms that float or drift freely near the ocean's surface called?
blankton
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Which environment are all the ecological zones grouped in?
The Benthic Environment
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Which oceanic zone includes the volume of water that covers the entire sea floor except for the continental shelf?
The Oceanic Zone
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Corals live in what zone?
The Sublittoral zone
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Plants such as seaweed have strong what that allows them to grow?
Holdfasts (root like structures
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What marine life has organisms that swim actively in the open ocean called?
nekton
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Which environment is located near the ocean's surface?
The Pelagic environment
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Which zone is the shallowest ecological zone, that is located between the low-tide and the high-tide limits?
The Intertidal Zone
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What types of animals live within the Abyssal zone?
Crabs, sponges, worms, and sea cucumbers
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How many times a day does the intertidal zone change?
Twice
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What type of plankton is animal-like?
zooplankton
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Is the Benthic environment near the ocean floor or near the middle depths of the ocean?
The ocean floor
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Which zone covers the continental shelf, and has the largest concentration of marine life?
The Neritic Zone
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What types of animals live in the Oceanic zone?
Giant squids, whales, and angel fish
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Why is plant life scarce in the Bathyal zone?
The sunlight lacks
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What type of plankton is plant-like?
phytoplankton
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What are the two major zones in the pelagic environment?
The Neritic Zone and the Oceanic Zone
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Which zone is the largest ecological zone, but no plants and few animals live in it?
The Abyssal Zone
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What types of animals live in the Neritic zone?
Fish, plankton, dolphins, and other mammals
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The neritic zone contains diverse marine life, because it receives more what than the other zones?
Sunlight
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