Ocean Habitats

What are 3 ways in which the ocean's zones differ from one another

Amount of sunlight, amount of pressure, types of organisms that live there

How do scientists classify marine organisms

Where they live and how they move

Are dolphins plankton, nekton,or benthos?Explain your answer.

Nekton,because dolphins are free-swimming animals that can move throughout the water column

Plankton

Tiny algae animals that float in the water and are carried by waves and currents

Nekton

Free-swimming animals that can move throughout the water column

Benthos

Organisms that inhabit the ocean floor

Food web

the combination of all of the feeding relationship

High-tide line

Intertidal zone

Low-tide line

Neritic zone

Continental shelf

Open ocean