Ocean Zones

Lesson 1,  Exploring The Ocean Floor

1. What makes exploring the ocean floor difficult?

2. What technological advances have been made to explore the ocean floor?

Lesson 2, Ocean Habitats 

1.       What are the different classifications of organisms in the ocean?

2.      Which is the largest food source for marine organisms?

3.      What are phytoplankton?

4.      What are zooplankton?

5.      What are the characteristics of estuaries?

6.      What are conditions in the open ocean zone?

7.     What are conditions in the surface zone?

8      What are conditions in the deep zone?

9.  What are characteristics of hydrothermal vents?

10. What process is responsible for stimulating the growth of plankton?

11. Be able to identify the parts of the ocean floor in the image below.

What is an ocean - Start at 3:41

Video - Hydrothermal Vents (3:26)

Video - Coral Reefs (3:52)

Lesson 3, Resources from the Ocean

1. Where are most of USA’s fisheries?

2. What is a positive and negative effects of aquaculture?

3. What are some other useful products?

4. What are some nonliving ocean resources?

5. What procedure is necessary to extract the oceans oil?

6. What are some minerals that are extracted for use?

7. What is the root of most ocean pollution?

8. How do natural occurrences pollute the ocean?

9. What are some human activities the pollute the ocean?

10. How can the ocean be protected?

Video Oil Spills (2:36)