Choose Two of the following
Topics:
Ocean Salinity or Temperature or Density of the Ocean or
Ocean Layering or Classification of Marine Life or Marine
Life Zones
Research your Topics-You become the Expert!
Explain to me your topics in one page
Compare and Contrast Two of the topics include:
How one effects the other, if not why not!
Use the vocabulary from 15.1, 15.2 to describe and support your
explanation
Do Now: Write as questions and
leave space for answers!
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Name the five ocean basins, which is the largest?
Three topographical features on the ocean floor?
Name three parts of the continental margin.
The deep flat feature covered with sediment?
Sea floor spreading
Three main zones of the open ocean
What is Salinity?
Two Sources of sea salt
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9) Creatures that move independent of the ocean
current?
10) Area most Benthos animals live?
11) Estuary is?
12) Estuaries in our area?
13) Estuaries control?
14) Estuary Sample questions
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern
Pacific is the largest
Name The Three Topographical of
the Ocean Floor?
 Continental Margins
 Ocean Basin Floor
 Mid Ocean Ridges
Name Three Parts of the
Continental Margin
 Continental Shelf
 Continental Slope
 Continental Rise
Deep, Flat Features Covered With
Fine Sediments in the Deep Ocean
1) Slope Plains
2) Abyssal Plains
3) Great Plains
4) Continental Plains
Sea Floor Spreading
A) One Plate is Pushed under another Plate
B) Where Mountains are Made
C) New Ocean Floor is Formed at Mid Ocean Ridges
D) All of the Above
What are the Three Main Zones to
Open Ocean
Surface (mix zone)
Transition zone
Deep Zone
What is Salinity
Total Amount of Solid Material Dissolved in Water
What are the Two Sources of Salt in
Ocean Water
Chemical Weathering of Rocks and Earth’s Interior
Creatures Move Independently
the Ocean Currents
A) Nektons
B) Alton
C) Planktons
D) Photons
Which Areas of the Ocean do Most
Benthos Creatures Live?
A) Abysmal Plain
B) Shallow Costal Ocean Floor
C) Steep Slope
D) Continental Roof
An Estuary is
A) Salt and Fresh water lake
B) Salt water river
C) Fresh and salt water creek
D) Partially enclosed body of water where fresh and salt
water meet
The Estuaries in our area are
located in?
A) Chesapeake
B) Delaware
C) New Jersey
D) All of the Above
Estuaries Help Control ?
A) Plant growth
B) Storm surges
C) Water table
D) None of the above
Birds and other animals can not
breed in estuaries because?
A) Too much water
B) Too many predators
C) Pollution
D) Are you kidding? Estuaries are the most productive
breeding grounds on Earth!
Estuaries provide ____% of shrimp,
clam and fish catch?
A) 80-90
B) 10-29
C) 40-50
D) 2-5
All of the following are found in
estuaries, EXECPT
A) Bio-diversity
B) Fish
C) Unfiltered dirty water
D) Crabs