Ocean Ocean Floor Sea Plants

Marine habitats can be divided into coastal and open.

Ocean ocean floor sea plants. Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet. The marine environment supports many kinds of these habitats. Stunning underwater plants and sea life on the ocean floor by. Nearly half of the world s sea floors are over 3 000 meters 9 800 ft deep.

As in the bottom of nutrient cycling and food chain ocean plants have to feed food demand to creatures in the higher level of the chain. Marine habitats are habitats that support marine life marine life depends in some way on the saltwater that is in the sea the term marine comes from the latin mare meaning sea or ocean a habitat is an ecological or environmental area inhabited by one or more living species. Because it gains its food by producing it through photosynthesis the sea grass will only exist in the shallow area where the sunlight still can appear. For our younger readers here are some ocean facts for kids.

The ocean ecosystem is the largest ecosystem comprising of 70 of the earth s surface and only 20 of it is known to man though expeditions and explorations have been conducted since early times the vast ocean floor is as unknown as the space. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. Inland bodies of saltwater such as the caspian sea and the great salt. Like ocean animals humans knowledge on ocean plants is rather limited.

The marine biome is rich in minerals animals and plants. At smithsonian ocean we have lesson plans activities and resources to help you engage your students in the wonders of our oceans. In the sea floor you will see a plant called as sea grass. In most of the world the ocean floor is very deep averaging 3 790 meters 12 430 ft in depth.

See all lesson plans see seafloor lesson plans the seafloor articles. Blythe copeland is a writer editor and blogger who began working with treehugger in 2008. Number of ocean plants is absolutely greater than ocean animals. Smaller ocean regions such as the mediterranean sea gulf of mexico and the bay of bengal are called seas gulfs and bays.

The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.