Mr. McKinley's Oceans Quiz

What continent do we live on?

The Pacific Ocean is the smallest ocean.

What continent is this?

Mediterranean Sea has more salinity than the Atlantic Ocean. So, the Mediterranean is ________.

Using the diagram, what part of the ocean is letter C?

The ocean floor _____.

Most of the Earth's natural elements are found in the ocean.

The measurement of salt in the water in a sample is called ______.

This ocean has a limited amount of marine life because of its low oxygen content.

What ocean is number 1?

Although the ocean is one continuous body of water, oceanographers have divided it into.....

The detailed description or representation on a map of the natural and artificial features of an area on land.

Dark colored igneous rock that serves as the primary rock composition for the ocean floor.

The main reason lakes and oceans have different types of animal life is that oceans have _____.

There is less than 1% drinkable water on earth.

What ocean is number 5?

Where does the majority of our oxygen come from?

Most life in the ocean is found at or near the surface because of what energy source?

This is the newest ocean to be named and was named in the year 2000.

Some areas of the ocean are saltier than others.

Which of the following is plant plankton?

What is the study of the ocean called?

What type of water is most abundant on Earth?

What is the name of the newest ocean on our Earth?

Largest to smallest oceans in correct order.

What is the warmest ocean in the world?

Greenland sharks can live over 500 years.

Most life in the ocean is found on the bottom.

What ocean is the deepest and oldest of all the oceans?

What ocean is the youngest?

It is correct in saying there is a One World Ocean.

The ocean covers about how much of Earth’s surface?

Is Antarctica a continent surrounded by ocean?

Zooplankton is also known as animal plankton.

Most of the water that we can easily use comes from rivers and lakes like the Chattahoochee River and Lake Lanier.

_________________ is a measure of the amount of dissolved solids in a given amount of water.

Fish breathe oxygen that is mixed in water.

The _______and the _______are connected near the bottom of the ocean.

Islands are formed from volcanoes.

What concentration of water has the highest salinity?

Using the diagram, what part of the ocean is letter G?

If islands are formed mainly from volcanic eruptions, what type of rock do you think islands are mostly made of?

A measurement of ocean depth

What ocean is number 4?

How much of the Earth's water is actually drinkable?

2 atoms of hydrogen combine with one atom of oxygen to form water.

True or False: Erosion can make the continental shelf shaped differently.

The Atlantic Ocean was named after what Greek Titan god?

A child builds a sandcastle and the next morning it is gone. What caused it to disappear?

As you travel from the continental shelf to the abyssal plain the temperature and pressure ___.

Using the diagram, what part of the ocean is letter B?

There is the same amount of water here on Earth today as there was when the Earth formed.

What continent is this?

The Southern Ocean is known for its turbulent and dangerous iceberg laden waters.

A _______ is a drop in the ocean and the deepest part of the ocean.

The average salinity of the ocean is 35 ppt.

Seas are larger than oceans.

Almost all the water that is here now has been here for billions of years.

What ocean was the first to be crossed by ship and airplane?

This ocean is the smallest, shallowest, and coldest.

Deepest trench in the world is called _______ Trench.

Using the diagram, what part of the ocean is letter F?

About 245-250 million years ago, the Earth was one giant landmass called Pangea surrounded by an ocean called ______.

When sodium and chorine combine, they form what compound?

What percentage of the Earth's surface is abyssal plains?

Which level of the ocean is home to most marine life?

Phytoplankton is a plant-like organism that uses photosynthesis.

What is the largest and oldest ocean?

What ocean is number 3?

What continent is this?

The Continental Shelf is .....

Most of sea life lives in the continental shelf?

what is the deepest trench in the ocean

Earth's oceans have changed a lot throughout history