Oceans

Question 1

A line of latitude about 23.5 degrees North of the equator:

Answer 1

Tropic of Cancer

Question 2

A line of latitude about 23.5 degrees South of the equator:

Answer 2

Tropic of Capricorn

Question 3

A marshy or muddy area that is covered and uncovered by the rise and fall of the tide, lacks plant life:

Answer 3

Tidal Flat

Question 4

Describing area where organisms live in the open ocean:

Answer 4

Pelagic

Question 5

Grasses found in the saltwater marsh:

Answer 5

Spartina

Question 6

Temperature zone in water where temperatures drop very quickly (due to lack on sunlight penetrating to that depth), often matches up with the mesopelagic zone:

Answer 6

Thermocline

Question 7

Zone of ocean away from the shore, the regions of the open sea that lie beyond and between the continental shelves:

Answer 7

Oceanic Zone

Question 8

Zone of the ocean near the shore:

Answer 8

Neritic Zone

Question 9

Part of the pelagic environment between 200 and 1000 m; zone between light and dark, light intensity too low for photosynthesis, (often times matches up with thermocline):

Answer 9

Mesopelagic Zone

Question 10

Deepest parts of the oceans, in the trenches:

Answer 10

Hadal Zone

Question 11

The “Abyss.” No light and near freezing temperatures. Below 4,000 m deep:

Answer 11

Abyssopelagic Zone

Question 12

The pelagic environment from a depth of 1000 m to 4000 m. No sunlight at all (aphotic zone):

Answer 12

Bathypelagic Zone

Question 13

Part of the pelagic environment from the surface to 200 m. Plenty of sunlight to promote photosynthesis:

Answer 13

Epipelagic Zone

Question 14

Which vocabulary words mark out the tropical areas of our oceans?

Answer 14

Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn

Question 15

Place the zones of the ocean in order from surface to deepest (5):

Answer 15

1. Epipelagic
2. Mesopelagic
3. Bathypelagic
4. Abyssopelagic
5. Hadal

Question 16

Which is more dense (and would sink)?

Answer 16

Saltwater

Question 17

Which is more dense (and would sink)?

Answer 17

Cold water

Question 18

What happens to the density of the water if glacier ice continued to melt into the ocean?

Answer 18

Melting ice adds more freshwater into the ocean which makes the water less dense

Question 19

Not enough oxygen for organisms to survive:

Answer 19

Dead Zone

Question 20

Organism that tells us the health of the environment:

Answer 20

Indicator Species

Question 21

Who is an indicator species of the Chesapeake Bay?

Answer 21

Striped bass/rockfish

Question 22

In summertime the amount of oxygen increases in the Chesapeake Bay because of the added nutrients and increased temperatures (True or False):

Answer 22

False

Question 23

Why are striped bass getting red lesions on their bodies?

Answer 23

Bacteria in the water from their immune systems being stressed due to eutrophication

Question 24

How do kelp forests help combat climate change?

Answer 24

They take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere

Question 25

True of False - When there is a lot of rain near the coast, the salinity in the ocean water near the coast may increase:

Answer 25

False