Sunlight Zone In The Ocean

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Chill	Desert	Chaparral or Scrub		Taiga = Coniferous Forests	Grassland		Tropical Rainforest	Pond	Ocean
Antarctic	Tundra	Cave	City	Temperate Deciduous forest	Savanna	Prairie	Freshwater Marsh	Swamp	Intertidal Zone	Coral Reef	Sunlit (Euphotic) Zone	Twilight (Disphotic) Zone

Sunlit Ocean (Euphotic) Zone Brute Printouts

Ocean zones The uppermost layer of the world's oceans is bathed in sunlight during the daytime. This bright ocean layer is called the sunlit zone or the euphotic zone (euphotic means "well lit" in Greek) or the epipelagic zone (epipelagic means "upon the sea"). The depth of this zone depends on the clarity or murkiness of the h2o. In articulate water, the euphotic zone can be quite deep; in murky water, it can be but 50 feet deep. On average, information technology extends to about 660 feet (200 meters); the depth of the body of water averages virtually 13,000 feet or four,000 k. The temperature in this zone ranges from 104 to 27 degrees F.

In this zone, there is enough low-cal for photosynthesis to have place, then many plants and other photosynthetic organisms alive in this zone and nutrient is abundant. Photosynthesis is a procedure in which sunlight and carbon dioxide gas are converted into food (chemical energy contained in carbohydrates) and oxygen gas. Photosynthesis in the oceans creates approximately 90% of the Earth's gaseous oxygen. Virtually of the oxygen is produced by phytoplankton. These primary producers (too called autotrophs) are the showtime link in the food concatenation in the oceans. Because of this food source, many animals also live in this zone. In fact, most of the life in the ocean is plant in this zone, although it is the smallest ocean zone in terms of book of h2o.

Primary Producers (Algae, Phytoplankton, Plants): In the euphotic zone, photosynthesizers (autotrophs) include:

Free-floating algae -- oftentimes called seaweed

Scarlet algae ( Rhodophyta) -- Porphyra (from which edible nori is made), dulse, Ceramium and maerl
Greenish algae (Chlorophyta) --thongweed, sea lettuce (Ulva)
Brownish algae (Phaeophyta) -- like fast-growing kelp, Sargassum, Turbinaria, Dictyota, and wrack

Phytoplankton -- tiny, one-celled photosynthetic plankton like diatoms, dinoflagellates, and coccolithophorids

Plants

Flowering plants (angiosperms)
- Submerged: Seagrasses -- flowering plants like eelgrass and thalassia
- Not Entirely Submerged: Mangroves -- trees that root in the shallow seafloor but grow higher up water.

Animals: Examples of euphotic zone animals include most body of water fish (including sharks and rays), man-o'-war, jellyfish, sea turtles, seals, coral, and zooplankton. Some bottom-dwellers alive in the euphotic zone - this zone is divers in terms of lite, not depth.

Some of the animals in this zone have countershading. Countershading is when an animate being is light on its underside and dark on its upper parts. When a predator looks downwards at a countershaded animal, it blends into the darker waters; whan a predator looks at a countershaded animal from beneath, the light underbelly disappears into the lite. This adaptation helps camouflage the organism, hiding information technology from predators and allowing it to sneak up on prey. Virtually sharks, for instance, are countershaded.

Sunlit Ocean (Euphotic) Zone Animal Printouts:

In The Body of water
An Piece of cake Reader Book

A short, printable book about sea animals for early readers. The volume has pages for the student to cutting out, read, colour and copy a short phrase. The pages are about a fish, whale, seal, starfish, shell, shark, crab, octopus, jellyfish, shrimp, and clam.

Bounding main Animals,
A Rainbow Under the Bounding main
A Printable Book

A short, printable book about colorful ocean animals for early readers. The book has pages for the pupil to cut out, animal sentences to read and copy (like, "The lobster is red."), activities to do (like labeling the pictures, connect the dots, and matching), and pictures to color. The pages are: lobster, crab, clown fish, starfish, octopus, tuna, bounding main urchin, seal, orca, beluga whale, and shark.

Angelfish
Angelfish are brightly-colored, flattened fish that alive in shallow warm waters.

Beluga Whale

A small, white, toothed whale that lives by and large in cold, Arctic waters.

Bivalves

Bivalves are soft-bodied animals that are protected by 2 hard shells, hinged together. Scallops, oysters and clams are bivalves.

Blowfish

Too called pufferfish, globefish, and fugu, this poisonous fish can swallow h2o to double its size.

Bluefin Tuna

A large, bony fish in danger of extinction from over-line-fishing.

Blueish Ring Octopus

A pocket-sized but very venomous octopus from warm reefs in Australia and nearby regions.

Blue Shark

A sleek, fast-swimming shark with blueish skin.

Bluish Whale

A baleen whale that is the largest animal that e'er lived on Earth.

Bottlenose Dolphin

A bottlenose dolphin is a small, toothed whale.

Bowhead Whale

A baleen whale with very long baleen.

Brittle Star

A bottom-abode marine invertebrate with long, spiny arms.

Balderdash Shark

(Unproblematic version)
A blunt-nosed, dangerous, gray shark that can likewise alive in fresh h2o rivers and lakes.

Bull Shark

A blunt-nosed, dangerous, gray shark tin can that also live in fresh water rivers and lakes.

Clam

Burrowing bivalves with a soft trunk.

Clown Fish

Colorful fish that alive among body of water anemone.

Conch
A marine invertebrate with a large, beautiful shell.

Copepod

Copepods are tiny crustaceans from fresh and salt water.

Coral

Coral is a tiny marine animal that often lives in colonies. Huge colonies of hard corals form coral reefs.

Coral Reef Animals

Coral reefs are warm, articulate, shallow sea habitats that are rich in life. The reef's massive structure is formed from coral polyps.

Crab

A crab is an fauna with a shell. It has optics on stalks on its head.

Crustaceans

Crustaceans are animals with a hard exoskeleton, jointed legs, and a segmented body.

Cuttlefish

Cuttlefish are cephalopods with relatively short legs, a fin along the unabridged pall, and an internal cuttlebone.

Dall's Porpoise

A black-and-white toothed whale that makes a distinctive spray when it surfaces.

Dogfish Shark

A small-scale, very common, relatively harmless shark found worldwide.

Dugong

Dugongs are gentle, slow-swimming, aquatic mammals.

Eels

Information and printouts on these primitive fish that go through metamorphosis.

Echinoderms
Spiny-skinned, bottom-dwelling marine invertebrates with five-fold symmetry.

Elephant Seal, Northern

The Northern Elephant Seal is a huge seal that lives in the northern Pacific Ocean. (Family unit Phocidae, Subfamily Monachinae)

Fiddler Crab: Label Me! Printout

Label the external anatomy of the fiddler crab.
Answers

Fin Whale

A huge baleen whale that is the second-largest animal on Earth.

Fish

Fish live in the h2o and breathe with gills. Well-nigh (but not all) fish are establish in the sunlit (euphotic) zone of the body of water.

Gastropods

Gastropods are a class of mollusks with a single (or absent) beat and a muscular foot.

Grey Whale

The greyness whale is baleen whale that is a bottom feeder; it migrates very long distances each year.

Great Hammerhead Shark

A large predatory fish with a hammer-shaped caput.

Hammerhead Shark

Large predators with a hammer-shaped head.

Harbor Seal

Harbor Seals alive in the ocean but exhale air. They are marine mammals.

Harp Seal

Harp Seals are marine mammals that live in the North Atlantic and the Arctic Bounding main.

Hermit Crab

Hermit venereal are venereal that lack a hard shell; they use a discarded beat for protection.

Krill

Small crustaceans that are eaten by many animals, including baleen whales.

Lemon Shark

Large, yellow predators found near the surface and at intermediate depths.

Limpet

The limpet is a marine invertebrate (a gastropod) with a flattened, cone-shaped crush.

Littoral Zone

The littoral (intertidal) zone is where the sea meets the land.

Lobster

A hard-shelled marine invertebrate with ten jointed legs.

Mako Shark

Big predators that are the fastest swimming fish!

Manatee

Manatees are gentle, slow-swimming, aquatic mammals.

Man-of-War

The Portuguese human being-of-war is a floating colony of animals that has very long, stinging tentacles. It lives in warm ocean waters.

Marine Mammals

Mammals that spend most of their lives in the seas.

Megamouth

A large, filter-feeding shark that was only discovered in 1976.

Minke Whale

The smallest baleen whale. It sings and has a white band on each flipper.

Mollusks

Mollusks are soft-bodied invertebrates. Some mollusks include the octopus, squid, mollusk, snail, slug, and tusk shells.

Moray Eel Printout

Long, snake-like fish that have circular gills.

Narwhal

A toothed whale from the Arctic. The male has a huge, spiral tooth.

Northern Elephant Seal

The Northern Elephant Seal is a huge seal that lives in the northern Pacific Ocean. (Family Phocidae, Subfamily Monachinae)

Northern Fur Seal

The Northern Fur Seal is a marine mammal that lives in the northern Pacific Ocean.

Nurse Shark

A large lesser-habitation shark with rounded fins.

Octopus

Octopuses take eight legs and live on the sea floor. Go to a simple version (just the epitome).

Octopus Shape Book

A short volume about the octopus to impress, with pages on octopus beefcake, a connect-the-dot activity, a page on the well-nigh poisonous octopus, octopus facts, and octopus questions.

Orca or Killer Whale

A toothed whale that lives in small-scale pods in the Chill.

Oyster

The oyster is a bivalve, a soft-bodied marine beast that is protected by two hard shells.

Pufferfish

Likewise called blowfish and fugu, this poisonous fish can swallow water to double its size.

Purple Bounding main Urchin

A spiny, globular animal that lives on the ocean floor off the western declension of Northward America.

Queen Conch
A marine invertebrate with a big, beautiful shell.

Rays

Rays are flat fish with no basic, only cartilage. Many rays live in coral reefs.

Right Whale

Baleen whales with a huge head and an biconvex mouth.

Salmon

Salmon are fish that alive in the ocean and spawn in fresh water.

Sand Dollar

Sand Dollars are echinoderms, disk-shaped spiny-skinned sea bed animals that have 5-role radial symmetry.

Sandtiger Shark (Sand Shark)

A shark that is cannibalistic before birth.

Scallop

Scallops are bivalves, shelled animals that alive on the ocean floor.

Sea Lion

Bounding main lions are eared seals that live on coastlines.

Seals

Seals live in the bounding main only breathe air. They are marine mammals.

Sea Otter

Body of water otters are marine mammals with very dense, waterproof fur.

Ocean Star

Sea stars, another name for starfish, are animals that live on the ocean floor.

Sea Turtle

Bounding main turtles are big marine turtles.

Sea Urchin

A spiny, globular animal that lives on the ocean floor.

Shark Anatomy

Label the shark external beefcake diagram.
Answers

Sharks

Sharks are a type of fish that have no bones, only cartilage. Many sharks live or hunt in reefs.

Shrimp

Shrimp are small, bottom-dwelling crustaceans with a translucent exoskeleton.

Snail

A soft-bodied animal with a hard, protective shell.

Spectacled Porpoise

A porpoise (a small toothed whale) from the Southern Hemisphere.

Stingray

Stingrays are flat fish with a stinger and no basic (only cartilage).

Sunfish

A large fish with an nearly circular, flattened torso.

Swordfish

The swordfish is a large fish with a long, abrupt bill.

Thresher Shark

The Thresher Shark is a shark whose tail fin has a greatly elongated upper lobe.

Tiger Shark

Tiger Sharks are large predators who are institute worldwide in warm seas, including coral atolls.

Tuna

The Bluefin tuna is a large, bony fish in danger of extinction from over-fishing.

Walrus

The walrus is a large mammal that spends near of its life in icy seas.

Weddell Seal

The Weddell seal is a large, nocturnal pinniped from Antarctica.

Whales

Whales are marine mammals. Some whales are establish most coral reefs.

Whales: Mystery Connect-the-Dots

Learn about whales while you play.

Whale Shark

The largest fish and a filter feeder that eats tiny marine organisms and small fish.

Whales vs. Fish

Determine which characteristics belong to fish, which vest to whales, and which belong to both.

Whelk

Whelks are marine invertebrates with a spiral beat out.

Zebra Bullhead Shark

A bottom-home shark with zebra-like stripes.

Zooplankton
Zooplankton are tiny animals that bladder in the seas and other bodies of water.

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Biomes - Habitats

Arctic	Desert	Chaparral or Scrub		Taiga = Coniferous Forests	Grassland		Tropical Rainforest	Pond	Ocean
Antarctic	Tundra	Cave	Metropolis	Temperate Deciduous Forest	Savanna	Prairie	Freshwater Marsh	Swamp	Intertidal Zone	Coral Reef	Sunlit (Euphotic) Zone	Twilight (Disphotic) Zone