Benthic Environment Potpourri Pelagic Environment Ocean Floor Ocean Floor 2
Zone in the tide, at the shoreline
Intertidal Zone
Edge of the continental shelf to the abyssal plain
Bathyal zone
Deepest zone, meters
Hadal zone
Largest ecological zone, crabs, worms, sponges
Abyssal Plain
Deepest zone, 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
What would you find at A? A B C D
Continental shelf
What would you find at letter B? A B C C
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