answersLogoWhite

0

organisms that live on the ocean floor are called Benthos

User Avatar

Wiki User

15y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

What environment are the organisms that live above the oceans floor apart of?

Organisms that live above the ocean floor are apart of the pelagic environment


What is an area along the ocean floor that consists of sand silt and dead organisms?

The ocean has different zones that has plants and animals. The area along the ocean floor that consists of sand silt and dead organisms is called the benethic zone.


What are animals plants and animals that live one the ocean floor called?

marine organisms


Scientist who study the ocean floor are called?

Benthos


How is it possible for the ocean floor to be an ecosystem?

There are certain organisms which have adapted to the ocean floor environment. Together, these organisms make up an ecosystem.


What are the plants and animals that live on the ocean floor?

marine organisms


What produces the ocean floor?

There are many things that could produced the ocean floor. Dying organisms for example are one component in the ocean floor.


Are benthos are organisms that live?

On the ocean floor


What ocean floor feature consists of chains of individual volcanoes?

The ocean floor feature that consist of chains of individual volcanoes is called mid ocean ridges. This ridge can rise from 1 to 3 kilometers above the ocean basin.


Is the ocean floor a good place for fossils to form?

A lot of shells of marine organisms wind up on the ocean floor. Bones do not last on the ocean floor, they get eaten. But shells can last.


The ocean floor and all of the organisms that live on or in it is the?

benthic environment


Organisms that live on the ocean floor are reffered to as?

Bottom feeders.