Assignment:
Activity Title: Introduction to Ocean Zones
Students will create a diagram of the ocean zones and determine what organisms live in each zone. Students will draw the appropriate scale to demark meters (and conversion to feet) from 0-6000m and draw the zones that correspond to the geological structures of the ocean basin.
Objectives: Students will be able to:
1. Measure and draw a scale in meters of ocean depths
2. Identify ocean zones and geological structures in an ocean basin
PROCEDURE
1. Measure and label the meter scale on either side of the diagram from 0 m at the ocean surface down to 6,000 meters and the geological structures of the ocean basin (continental shelf, slope, rise and abyssal plain).
2. Work at the top of the diagram, drawing the surface of the ocean and structures found at the surface (lie, a ship, a sailboat).
3. Work on the bottom of the diagram, drawing a seamount, trench, hydrothermal vents Labels and features to include on diagram: Photic (sunlit) zone Aphotic (no light) zone, Neritic system Benthic zone, Pelagic zone, Bathyal zone , Abyssal zone and Hadal zone.