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9.3 Oceans Overview Video Lab
o http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/parks-and-nature-places/oceans/oceans-overview.html
o Answer the following questions as you view the movie, including the last couple that are your personal thoughts and ideas reflecting on the movie and the content you have learned this week.
1. What drives climate and weather?
2. What happens to the water that evaporates from the ocean?
3. How much of the earth’s surface is covered by the ocean?
4. How deep is the deepest part of the ocean?
5. What percent of earth’s water is ocean?
6. Pressure deep in the ocean is (greater/less) than at the top.
7. What two geographic features are found on the base of the ocean floor?
8. Have we explored all of the ocean? Why or why not?
9. What has happened to ocean wildlife in the last 50 years?
10. What types of wastes have gone into the ocean?
11. How many ”dead zones” are there?
12. What material has collected in a mass twice the size of Texas in the Pacific Ocean?
13. What has happened due to construction along the coastlines?
14. What other factors are affecting the ocean?
15. Why does the narrator say that our lives depend on the ocean?
16. “The ocean is our last frontier.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Explain your position.
Using your book or the internet draw the 3 zones, intertidal, neritic, and open ocean.
Using your book or the internet draw the zones for depth, ( include animals at each level(benthos and nekton)