Oceans 2
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- What happens to shoreline habitats when the tide comes in?
- Plants and animals are covered with water. Some are carried in or away from the shore.
- Describe the light zone.
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Receives light from the sun.
Filled with living things. - How do timny plantlike organisms of the light zone help the ocean?
- Theu use sunlight to make a sugar-like food. Other animals eat them as food.
- What animals are found in the light zone?
- turtles, dolphins, jellyfish, sharks, shrimp, squid
- Describe the dark zone.
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Black- no sunlight
Little food or life
Animals here make their own light to attract their food. - Name some animals found in the dark zone
- angler fish
- What are some dangers to the ocean and its animals?
- pollution, fishing nets, threated beaches where eggs are layed, oil spills
- What are corals?
- small, soft-bodied animals that live in shallow ocean waters.
- How are corals made?
- They develop a hard skeleton made of calcium that protects the plant and coral inside.
- Many corals together can form a ______________.
- Reef
- What are some dangers to a coral reef?
- People take too many fish and seaweed becomes overgrown, divers poison the reef while catching fish, boats scrape the reefs breaking pieces off.
- What is being done to protect the reefs?
- Governments pass laws against use of poisons, scientists teach people how they impact reefs, buoys are used to mark reefs, divers must follow underwater marked trails.