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The midnight zone and the abyssal zone
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What is the permanently dark section of the ocean called?
aphotic zone
The deep ocean is within the aphotic zone and is also very cold. Suggest some of the unique characteristics that might enable organisms to live in the deep ocean.?
The aphotic zone is permanently dark. Organisms would need to be able to manufacture and obtain food without photosynthesis.
What animals in the ocean live in the Dark Zone?
sea turtle
The permanently dark zone below the photic zone is called what?
this could be the aphotic zone where only 1% of the surface light reaches. The Bethnic zone is the VERY bottom and is basically the sediment zone.
Ocean water is completely dark throughout the?
climate zone
What zone is known as midnight zone?
the lowest part of the ocean where it is so dark that it looks like midnight
What is the third layer of the ocean?
The third layer of the ocean is the Bathypelagic Zone. This is also called the dark zone. There is no sunlight in this zone, and it extends from 1,000 meters to about 4,000 meters in depth. The pressure is extremely high in this zone.
What is the part the ocean floor nearest the continents?
The continental shelf
What is the region about below about 200 m in an open ocean is called?
It is called dark zone
What is in the ocean floor?
they are two types of places where animals live light zone and dark zone in light zone may be dolphins, sea dogs,shrimps,some little sharks,etc..... in dark zone may be sharks,whales,sellfish,etc.......
What is is known as the midnight zone?
the lowest part of the ocean where it is so dark that it looks like midnight
How is the oceans temp different?
At the top of the ocean, or Sunlit, It is warmer because the top of the ocean the sun is closer then it is to the twilight,dark,abyss, and trenches zone. At the bottom of the ocean, or Trenches, It is colder because the sun can not reach that low in the ocean better then it can the Sunlit zone.
