Ocean Flashcards
What are the 5 oceans
Arctic Indian, southern Pacific Atlantic
What are the seven continents 
Asia, Africa, north, and south America, Europe, and Australia antartica
What percent of earth is covered by ocean water 
71
How many major oceans are there on earth? 
Five Atlantic Pacific, Indian, Arctic and southern 
What are the properties of the ocean? 
Geological physical ecological 
What is the meaning of physical?
Water moves because the moon creates tides 
What is the meaning of ecological? 
Plants and animals
What is salinity 
The amount of salt dissolved in water 
What changes the amount of salt and water? 
Evaporation depth of water, melting, iceberg, and runoff from land 
What are tides
The rise and sink of ocean water 
What causes tides
The moon 
What does Marie mean
Something found or made in the ocean like plants or animals 
What does aquatic mean? 
Anything related to water? 
 current can be
Warm or cold 
Oceans currents, affect,
The mixing of ocean water
Ocean currents what are they? 
Ocean currents are the movement of ocean water 
What causes ocean currents?
The wind and water temperature
Which current impacts the area where you live 
The Gulfstream 
What is the ocean four terminology? 
The continental shelf Continental slope, the continental rise, the abyssal plane, and the trench 
What is the continental
Is the edge of the continents
Continental slope is
With the ocean floor dips down far below the shelf 
The continental rise is 
The bottom of the continental slope, where all the soil settles 
What is the abyssal plane? 
The abyssal plane includes any flat sections of the ocean floor 
What is the trench? 
The trenches, narrow, very deep section far below the ocean four 
How deep is the continental shelf? 
100 to 200 m deep 
How deep is the continental slope? 
Ghost from 100 m to 3000 m deep 
How deep is the abyssal 
Can be anywhere from 4000 to 10,000 meters deep
How deep is a trench? 
Up to 11,000 meters deep 
Whatand what is what live above under in deep beneath the surface of the ocean some need of sunlight and others can survive with what 
Plants and animals live above under and deep beneath the surface of the oceans, summoning a lot of sunlight, and others can survive with none 
What plants and animals live above the up? 
Most marine life lives here, so many animals, example, fish, crab turtles, plants need sun 
What plants and animals live in the middle zone 
In the middle zone, not much sunlight animals that adapt to little light live here
What plants and animals live in the bottom
Not much light shrimp, like animals to burn and survive with no sunlight 
What are our oceans vocabulary words? 
Organism and dweller 
What is the meaning of organism?
A plant or animal 
What is the meaning of dweller
Used to describe where something 
What are the species of the oceans? 
Floating organisms, swimming organisms, non-moving floor, dwellers, 
What are floating organisms?
Floating organisms drift along the water 
What are swimming organisms?
Swimming organisms use their bodies to move around 
What is a non-moving floor dweller 
A non-moving floor dweller is creatures attached the floor of an ocean 
What are some plants and animals in the marine food web 
Sea birds, whales, sharks, mackerel, small fish, squid, sponge, algae, and plankton 
What is the sun create?
Energy 
