Ocean zone test
Please choose the correct answer for the following
questions.
1. Which ocean zone has the MOST
photosynthesis?
a. Sunlight Zone
b. Epipelagic Zone
c. Twilight Zone
d. Hadalpelagic zone
2. Which ocean zone has the LEAST light?
a. Sunlight Zone
b. Hadalpelagic Zone
c. Epipelagic Zone
d. Twilight Zone
3. Which ocean zone has the MOST sea-life?
a. Sunlight Zone
b. Hadalpelagic zone
c. Twilight Zone
d. Midnight Zone
4. Which ocean zone is closer to the surface?
a. Bathypelagic
b. Epipelagic
c. Hadalpelagic
d. Abyssalpelagic
5. Which ocean zone has the MOST salt?
a. Epipelagic
b. Hadalpelagic
c. Twilight Zone
d. Abyssalpelagic
6. Which ocean zone has the LEAST salt?
a. Epipelagic
b. Hadalpelagic
c. Abyssalpelagic
d. Surface Zone
7. Which ocean zone is the coldest?
a. Epipelagic
b. Hadalpelagic
c. Abyssalpelagic
d. Surface Zone
8. What’s it called when sea organisms can make
their own light?
a. Bioevanescence
b. Bioluminescence
c. Photolumichromatophorescence
d. Biophotolescence
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9. What is the main way you distinguish between
zones of the ocean.
a. The amount of food
b. The amount of light
c. Amount of seaweed
d. The color of the ocean
10. Cohesion is
a. Water sticking to water
b. Water sticking to something else
c. The film or layer that water sticking to
water creates
d. The hard surface water makes on
something
11. Twilight zone is another word for
a. Transition zone
b. Midnight zone
c. Epipelagic
d. hadalpelagic
12. Why is there surface tension
a. Water sticking to water
b. Water sticking to something else
c. The film or layer that water sticking to
water creates
d. The hard surface water makes on
something
13. Where would you find a hydrothermal vent?
a. Epipelagic zone
b. Mesopelagic
c. Hadalpelagic
d. Idkapelagic
14. Which of the following is an animal you would
expect to find in the transition/twilight zone?
a. Anemone
b. Giant squid
c. Nemo
d. Sea otter
15. Which of the following is an example of
adhesion.
a. Having to read your graduated cylinder
from the meniscus
b. Why belly flops hurt
c. Water strider
d. Yolo
16. This is a relatively small metal ball that allows
one explorer to go deep into the ocean
a. Bathyscaphe
b. Bathysphere
c. ROV
d. AUV
17. Ice floats because it is _________ than water
a. More dense
b. Less dense
c. Made of a different molecule
d. More Soluble
18. When ice crystallizes it _______
a. Spreads out into a formation
b. Flosses
c. Lines up in one straight line
d. Gets more dense into a tight ball
19. The surface zone on average is about _____
degrees Fahrenheit
a. 60
b. 65
c. 39
d. 36
True and False
Please choose A for True and B for False
20. _____Cohesion is why you need to read your
graduated cylinder from the meniscus
21. _____Salinity is the measure of carbon dioxide
22. _____Locations near the water will have more
extreme temperatures
23. _____Ice is less dense than water because some
atoms evaporate as it freezes
24. _____ There is living seaweed in the midnight
zone
25. _____ Hadalpelagic zone is the deepest zone
26. _____ Epipelagic zone is the most shallow zone
27. _____ The most animals are in the midnight
zone
28. _____ Most organisms are found in the abyssal
zone
29. _____ Anglerfish are usually found in the
surface zone
30. _____ James Cameron was the first explorer to
find the Titanic
Extra Credit: +5 points
1. On the back of your zipgrade
draw a cat in a scuba suit
swimming around. I want detail
right meow.