09.29.06
Magic School Bus On the Ocean Floor
Study questions.
Short Answers
- What are the 4 oceans?
- How much of the earth is cover by oceans?
- Where does the salt in the ocean come from?
- Where does sand come from?
- What causes the tides?
- What is the intertidal zone?
- What causes waves?
- What is a continent and how many are there?
- What is the land called that is on the edge of a continent, but covered by water?
- Do fish need oxygen?
- What are the characteristics of a “true” fish? Give me an example of a “true” fish and an animal that is called a fish, but isn’t.
- How many kinds of plankton are there, where are they found and what size are they?
- Explain an ocean food chain.
- Do sharks have bones?
- Why are islands like mountains?
- What do fish on the deep ocean floor eat?
- What is a hot-water vent?
- Is coral a plant or an animal?
- What are three kinds of coral reefs?
- What is an ocean current?
- Why do waves “break” near shore?
