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