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Ocean study cards
Layers of the ocean, ocean inhabitants, ocean instruments, ocean scientist, and ocean careers.
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Science
6th Grade
03/02/2011

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Term

What are the different ocean layers?

 

 

Definition

Continent – Land 

 

 Continental shelf –Land meets water               

Continental edge-

 

Continental slope-

 

Continental rise-

 

Abyssal plain

 

 

Term

What are the ocean zones?

 

  

Definition

Photic zone –top layer closes to sun

                                                                                             Aphotic zone -

 

Bathyal zone-  

                                                                                              -   Abyssal zone – bottom layer - dark

 

Term

What is Desalination?

 

 

Definition
 Water filtration process that is used to extract salt from water. 
Term

What are some examples of Ocean Careers ? 

     

 

  

Definition

 Aqua culturist         

 Ecologist  

 Fisher 

Ichthyologist 

                                      diver                                                     

Marine Biologist 

Oceanographer

Term

What are some Under water Energy Sources?

   

Definition

Hydrogen sulfide – Chemical energy 

                                                                      hydrothermal vents

                                                                         Photosynthesis-plant & sun

 

Term

What are some Natural Under water structures ?

    

Definition

Atolls - Island surrounded by water   

Sea mount- underwater volcano

 Midocean ridge - underwater mountain

Trenches- underwater deep crevices/valley

                                                                                                                                                                                 

                                                  

                                                                            

 

Term

What are some ocean needs/benefits?

    

 

Definition

It provides food, shelter, water, transportation, and an

energy source.

Term

What are Bioluminescent organism?

      

Definition

 

Glowing organisms that exist in the deep dark layers of the ocean because of the hydrogen sulfide released from the hydrothermal vent energy source. ex. Lantern fish /anglar fish, lion fish, eel, and jelly fish

 

 

 

Term

What are some underwater energy sources?

 

 

Definition

 

Photosynthesis-plant & sun (top layer)

 

Hydrogen sulfide – Chemical energy (deep dark layers)

 

hydrothermal vents

 

Term

Name some important ocean Scientist/Inventors.

 

     

 

 

Definition

Harry Hammond Hess - ocean scientist  

 

Cornelis Drebbel – Submarine 

 

Auguste Piccard- bathyscaphe 

 

Augusta Siebe – diver suit  

 

Emile Gagnan  &  Jacques –Yves  Cousteau – scuba equipment 

 

 

 

Term

What are the names of the Major oceans?

 

 

Definition

 

Atlantic Ocean

Antartic Ocean

Arctic Ocean

Indian Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Term

What are some important Ocean Instruments /Technology?

           

Definition

 

Alvin- submarine

Sonar - ocean wave radar

Satellites - Ocean meter detector

Bathyscaphe - submarine

HMS Challenger  - first ship

Diver helmet/suit

Argo- ocean instrument

 

 

Term

What types of fresh-salt water organism exist?

 

 

   

Definition

Estuary -mixture of fresh and salt water organisms

 

Intertidal zone - middle layer of the ocean 

Term

What are the different types of ocean producers & consumers?

 

     

Definition

Phytoplankton-Plant like

Zooplankton - Animal like

Benthos – Non swimming ocean creatureston-   

Nekton - Swimming ocean creatures

Coral & Coral reef

 

Term

How does ocean zone and depth effect the ocean?

 

      

Definition

Pressure Increase- as you decline deep into the ocean

 

 

Temperature decrease- gets colder as you decline in ocean depth

 

Light - decreases with each ocen depth

 

 

Oxygen - level decreases with each ocen depth

 

energy source changes from the sun to chemical energy 

                                                                                          

 

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