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The sunlit zone is home to a wide variety of marine species because plants can grow there and water temperatures are relatively warm. Lots of marine animals can be found in the sunlit zone including sharks, tuna, mackerel, jellyfish, sea turtles, seals and sea lions and stingrays.
- What percent of animals live in the sunlight zone?
- Are dolphins in the sunlight zone?
- What is the habitat of the sunlight zone?
- What sharks live in the sunlight zone?
- Why do stingrays live in the sunlight zone?
- What type of jellyfish live in the sunlight zone?
- What ocean zone do whales live in?
- What ocean zone do dolphins live in?
- Which ocean zone would you find a coral reef living in?
- What zone does a seahorse live in?
- Do crabs live in the sunlight zone?
- What animals live in the midnight layer of the ocean?
- What animals live in the photic zone in the ocean?
- What do animals in the sunlight zone eat?
What percent of animals live in the sunlight zone?
Because photosynthesis occurs here, more than 90 percent of all marine life lives in the sunlit zone.
Are dolphins in the sunlight zone?
Bottlenose dolphins are interesting animals. Though there habitat is a lot less interesting ● They are found in the sunlight zone (the top of the ocean). So that means they are in warm water. They are in the Indian Ocean, the Pasific Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the habitat of the sunlight zone?
Because it's the most accessible ocean zone, the Sunlit Zone is where people and wildlife are most likely to encounter one another. Because sunlight allows photosynthesis, the Sunlit Zone contains vast underwater forests of kelp, grasses and seaweeds.
What sharks live in the sunlight zone?
Predators such as hammerheads and silky sharks patrol these areas. The epipelagic or sunlight zone is teeming with life. But just a few hundred meters below lies a very different world.
Why do stingrays live in the sunlight zone?
In addition to plants, most marine animals live in the sunlight zone. There is a lot of available food, so more animals can survive. Often, animals in this layer are colorful. Sea turtles and stingrays also live in this layer.
What type of jellyfish live in the sunlight zone?
Golden Jellyfish | National Geographic. The millions of golden jellyfish that pack Palau's Jellyfish Lake spend much of their lives on the move during a daily migration that follows the sun's arc across the sky.
What ocean zone do whales live in?
The Bathyal zone is 1000 - 4000 meters below the surface of the ocean. Since there is no sunlight, a lot of the life in this zone don't have eyes. The marine life that do have life include squids, whales, and octopuses. It is difficult for fish to live in this zone, so they usually stay in the Euphotic zone.
What ocean zone do dolphins live in?
Bottlenose Dolphins live in the pelagic zone of the ocean, which includes those waters further from the land, basically the open ocean. The pelagic zone is generally cold.
Which ocean zone would you find a coral reef living in?
Coral Reefs. Coral reefs are ocean ridges formed by marine invertebrates living in warm shallow waters within the photic zone of the ocean. They are found within 30˚ north and south of the equator.
What zone does a seahorse live in?
Seahorses are mainly found in shallow tropical and temperate salt water throughout the world, from about 45°S to 45°N. They live in sheltered areas such as seagrass beds, estuaries, coral reefs, and mangroves. Four species are found in Pacific waters from North America to South America.
Do crabs live in the sunlight zone?
Sunlight penetrates to a very little extent, which makes the process of photosynthesis impossible. Supported Plant Species: No plants exist in this zone due to lack of light. Supported Animal Species: Squid, crab, cuttlefish, lancetfish, chain catshark, swordfish, wolf eels, bigeye tuna, calm, gastropods, krill.
What animals live in the midnight layer of the ocean?
The midnight zone is home to many different animals including the: Anglerfish, Octopuses, Vampire Squids, Eels, and Jellyfish. It is the third layer down from the top of the ocean. It is mostly dark and very cold in the midnight zone, just like the Abyssal zone we learned about yesterday.
What animals live in the photic zone in the ocean?
These are the fishes, marine mammals, worms, sponges, molluscs, sea stars and reptiles. While some of these large animals feed on fish, others, such as the baleen whale, feed on plankton.
What do animals in the sunlight zone eat?
That means that they live up in the sunlit shallows. They take the sun's “food” and turn it into a form that animals in the ocean can eat – themselves. Some of the animals that eat them are giants like filter feeding whales, but most are tiny zooplankton (animal plankton).
