Day 25 Marine Zones
Animal Test
Label your paper 1- 42
Ocean Zones
By light
-Photic Zone
-First 200m
-Aphotic Zone
-200m-10,000m
Intertidal Zone
-Where the tides rise and recede
Neritic Zone (Where pelagic zone begins)
-Mostly on the continental shelf
Oceanic Zone
-Past the continental shelf and out in deep ocean
Zones by Depth (Pelagic Divisions)
-Epipelagic- 0m-200m
-Mesopelagic- Starts right after the continental crust drops off or
200m-1000m
-Bethypelagic- 1000m-4000m Deepest zone unless there is an underwater canyon or abyss
-Abyssopelagic- 4000m-6000m The zone in an abyss
-Hadalpelagic/Hadopelagic- 6000m and deeper The zone in a crack
in a continental crust or lowest possible Pelagic zone. Named after
Hades