Abeka Science Investigating God's World Quiz 15 (grade 5, 2024 edition)

low tide region

Which intertidal region is usually submerged underwater?

middle tide

Which intertidal region has equal times of being covered and uncovered?

high tide

Which intertidal region is usually uncovered but gets flooded?

splash region

Which intertidal region experiences the ocean occasionally?

neritic

The shallowest and most sunlit horizontal region of the ocean is the _________ zone.

seagrasses

The only flowering plants of the ocean are _____________.

algae

Kelp is a kind of _________.

lagoon

A shallow body of salt water formed between a coral reef and land is a __________.

phytoplankton

The basis of most marine food chains food webs is ____________________.

hadal

The HMS Challenger explored ________ zone.

on more than 1%

What is the percentage of dissolved salt in freshwater biomes?

an organism that does not move from one place to another

What is a sessile organism?

midnight zone

Name the first ocean zone with no sunlight.

chemical energy

In chemosynthesis, what does bacteria use to make food?

sunlight zone

twilight zone

midnight zone

abyssal zone

hadal zone

Be able to label these ocean zones. (use p. 335 of the text to study)