Sunday, June 3, 2012

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  • Citation: This zone is also known as the middle ocean zone. It is too dark for plants to grow. 
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  • Sharks and other streamlined fish are able to swim to these depths to hunt. Animals in this zone
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  •  survive by eating each other and scavenging dead animals.The animals are the Ham merhead
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  •   Shark, Giant Squid, Gulper Eel, Crustacean, Luminous Prawn, Lantern Fish, Headlamp Fish and Sea Spider.
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  • Source: "Ocean Facts." ThinkQuest : Library. n.p., n.d. Web. 10 May 2012. http://library.thinkquest.org/6234/newpage1.htm. 
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  • Citation: This zone is known as the deep ocean sea. This area is pitch black. Food is scarce in 
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  • these depths. The fish of this zone have weak, soft bodies.The animals are the Hatchetfish, 
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  • Deep-sea Anglerfish, Oarfish, Squid, Viperfish and Sperm Whales
  • Citation: Most of the abyssal floor is made of thick sediments; in northern and southern 
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  • latitudes sediments are around 500 feet thick, and near the equator they are around 1,700 feet 
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  • thick. Since there's also very little oxygen, the sediments are made up primarily of anerobic 
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  • bacteria. Everything in the abyssal biome also decays slowly
  • Source: "The Benthic Ocean Environment." Find Science & Technology Articles, Education Lesson Plans, Tech Tips, Computer Hardware & Software Reviews, News and More at Bright Hub. n.p., n.d. Web. 10 May 2012. http://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/41041.aspx.
  • Citation: Abyssal food chains begin with phytoplankton detritus, fecal mattter and organic 
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  • debris, rather than with living producers. Since there's no light, there aren't any photosynthetic 
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  • producers.
  • Source: "The Benthic Ocean Environment." Find Science & Technology Articles, Education Lesson Plans, Tech Tips, Computer Hardware & Software Reviews, News and More at Bright Hub. n.p., n.d. Web. 10 May 2012. http://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/41041.aspx.
  • Citation: At the ocean's deepest point, the water pressure is the equivalent of having about 50 
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  • jumbo jets piled on top of you. Yet even here life thrives, according to scientists who have 
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  • pulled a plug of dirt from the seafloor
  • Source: "Thursday, October 28, 2010." Daily Nature and Science News and Headlines | National Geographic News. n.p., n.d. Web. 31 May 2012.. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0203_050203_deepest.html.
  • Citation: The only food, with the exception of a dead whale, cold water reefs and a few other 
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  • sources, is what falls down from above.
  • Source: "The Benthic Ocean Environment." Find Science & Technology Articles, Education Lesson Plans, Tech Tips, Computer Hardware & Software Reviews, News and More at Bright Hub. n.p., n.d. Web. 31 May 2012. ht tp://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/41041.aspx.
  • Citation: The sample was taken from the Challenger Deep, which is nearly 7 miles (11 
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  • kilometers) deep. The soil was packed with a unique community of mostly soft-walled, 
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  • singled-celled organisms that are thought to resemble some of the world's earliest life forms.
  • Citation: There is a huge thriving ecosystem in the hydrated oceanic crust which is one of the 
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  • largest in the world and virtually unknown. This giant ecosystem probably plays an important 
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  • role today and in addition, could host the first forms of life
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