Draw the following parts of the ocean below: shelf, slope, rise, ocean floor, margin, abyssal plains, sea
mount,tectonic plates, trench, intertidal zone, neritic zone, oceanic zone, benthic zone, surface zone,
thermocline and the deep zone
Answer the following questions ( you may use your science book pages 76-139)
1.In your words give the theory of how the ocean formed.
2. Compare the gases in the ocean to those in the atmosphere. Draw a conclusion from this
comparison. What is the primary role of carbon dioxide in the ocean?
3. How is salt (NaCl) formed?
4. What is salinity? How does climate affect salinity?
5. What is the oceans most important function?
6. What is an estuary and what is its most important function?
7. Where does new land form in the ocean?
8. Why is an upwelling important to organisms in the ocean?
9. What is chemosynthesis? Where does it occur? What is bioluminescence?
Draw the following within the ocean: shelf, slope, rise, ocean floor, mid ocean ridge, rift valley,
upwelling, coral reef, intertidal organism, neritic organism, oceanic organism, benthic organism, a
nekton, a zooplankton, a phytoplankton, and a benthos.