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- This zone is extendes to the end of the continental shelf - The average depth is 200 meters - The temperature ranges from warm to near freezing -The temperature ranges from warm to near freezing - This zone hosts the largest number of animals - The sun is visible in all of the zone - There is an abundence of nutrience in the water - This zone is covered by water all the time Organisms Include - Sea Urchin - Sea Anenome - Sponges -Alge - Hudson Plant - Seaweed
Littoral Zone
- It is the closest to the shore -The depth ranges from 5-10 meters -The temperature ranges from really hot to near freezing -The Littoral Zone has a high Dissolved Oxygen rate - Is the zone with the most sunlight - Houses nearly every major phylum - Affected by the tides and crashing of waves Organisms Include - Seaweed - Surf grass - Eel Grass - Sea Turtle - Acorn Barnacle - Hermit Crab
Sublittoral Zone
Epipelagic Zone
The Zones of the Ocean
- The Epipelagic Zone is the top part of the ocean - It goes from the top to 660 feet down - The temperature ranges from 104-27 degrees farenheight - There are many animals that live in this zone - It is nicknamed the 'sunlight zone' because there is always sun no matter where it is - Most of the ocean animals we think of live in this zone - This is the smallest zone in volume Organisms Include - Dolphin/ Porpoise - Jelly Fish - Seals - Seagrasses - Green Alge - Brown Alge
The Mesopelagic Zone
- This Zone is in the middle section of the ocean - It goes to 1,000 feet deep - The temperature is 39-47 degrees - There is only faint sunlight - No plants are in this zone - The name means middle of - No one had ever explored this zone until William Beebe and Otis Barton Organisms Include - Angel Shark - Eel - Gray Whale - Krill - Lantern Fish - Sea Spider
The Bathypelagic Zone
- Located at nearly the bottom of the ocean - Goes down to 20,000 feet - The temperature is nearly freezing - There is no sunlight - Completly dark - No plants - Some animals have no eyes, there is no need - Intense pressure animals must have evolved skeletons if they live there Organisms Include - Vampire Squid - Snaked Gonfish - Angler Fish - Amphipod - Slimestar - Gulper eel
Abyssalpelagic Zone
- This Zone is at the bottom of the ocean - The depth is 19,700-60,000 - The temperature is near freezing - No light at all - Huge amounts of pressure - Name means no bottom in latin - Many sea vents on the ocean floor Organisms Include - Giant Squid - Basket Star - Medusa - Echnoderm - Seapig
Hadalpelagic Zone
- All the trenches and cannons - Extends from 6, 000 meters to the deepest parts of the ocean - The temperature is near freezing - The pressure is 8 tons per square inch - Humanity's least explored place on earth - No seasonal changes Organism Includes - Starfish - Tube Fish - Viper Fish
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