Potpourri Pelagic Environment Ocean Floor 2 100 100

Potpourri Pelagic Environment Ocean Floor 2 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500 Benthic Environment

Zone in the tide, at the shoreline

Intertidal Zone

Edge of the continental shelf to the abyssal plain

Bathyal zone

Deepest zone, 6000 -7000 meters

Hadal zone

Largest ecological zone, crabs, worms, sponges

Abyssal Plain

Deepest zone, 6000 -7000 meters deep

Hadal zone

Hot water vents are also called this

Black smokers

Sound Navigation and Ranging is known as this

SONAR

Seasat and Geosat are types of these

satellites

Made up of continental shelf, slope and rise

Continental magin

Production of visible light by living organsms

bioluminescence

Water that covers the continental shelf

Neritic zone

the water in the ocean, not covering the continental shelf

Oceanic zone

Tiny open water plants and animals

plankton

Organisms that live on the ocean floor

benthos

Animals that swim or move freely in the water

nekton

A B C D What would you find at A?

Continental shelf

A B CC What would you find at letter B?

Continental slope

Made of large piles of sediment

Continental rise

What would you find at letter D?

Rift valley and mid-ocean ridge

What would you find at E?

seamount

What would you find at letter G?

Deep ocean trench

The type of plate boundary occurs at the mid-ocean ridge

Divergent boundary

The type of plate boundary occurs at the ocean trench.

Convergent Boundary

At the ocean trench you will find a ___________ zone.

Subduction – one plate moves below another

Hawaii is an example of this.

Seamount