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    The document describes different zones of the ocean based on depth and light penetration. It divides the oceans into the epipelagic zone (0-200m), mesopelagic zone (200-1000m), bathypelagic zone (1000-2000m), abyssal zone (2000-6000m), and hadal zone (6000m+). It also discusses intertidal, neritic, pelagic, and benthic zones. Light penetration divides the oceans into the photic zone (0-200m), twilight zone (200-2000m), and aphotic zone (2000m+). The epipelagic zone supports the most diversity due to sunlight, while the abyss

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    The document describes different zones of the ocean based on depth and light penetration. It divides the oceans into the epipelagic zone (0-200m), mesopelagic zone (200-1000m), bathypelagic zone (1000-2000m), abyssal zone (2000-6000m), and hadal zone (6000m+). It also discusses intertidal, neritic, pelagic, and benthic zones. Light penetration divides the oceans into the photic zone (0-200m), twilight zone (200-2000m), and aphotic zone (2000m+). The epipelagic zone supports the most diversity due to sunlight, while the abyss

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    Ocean Zones

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    The document describes different zones of the ocean based on depth and light penetration. It divides the oceans into the epipelagic zone (0-200m), mesopelagic zone (200-1000m), bathypelagic zone (1000-2000m), abyssal zone (2000-6000m), and hadal zone (6000m+). It also discusses intertidal, neritic, pelagic, and benthic zones. Light penetration divides the oceans into the photic zone (0-200m), twilight zone (200-2000m), and aphotic zone (2000m+). The epipelagic zone supports the most diversity due to sunlight, while the abyss

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    Ocean Zones

    Ocean Depth Zones Other Ocean Zones Light Penetration Zones

    Epipelagic Zone (0-200m) Intertidal Zone - water closest Photic Zone (0-200m) -
    Mesopelagic Zone (200-1000m) to the shore (Epipelagic) the most sunlit
    Bathypelagic Zone (1000-2000m) Neritic Zone - water closest to ocean zone; all colors are
    still visible
    Abyssal Zone (2000-6000m) the surface; rich in nutrients
    Twilight Zone (200-2000m) -
    Hadal Zone (6000m+) Pelagic Zone - open ocean (Mesopelagic/Bathypelagic)
    Benthic Zone - the ocean floor dimly sunlit; some colors are
    from the shore to the abyssal still visible
    plains Aphotic Zone (2000m+) -
    (Abyssal/Hadal) no sunlight;
    colors are no longer visible

    Creatures

    Epipelagic Mesopelagic & Bathypelagic Abyssal & Hadal

    The epipelagic zone is The mesopelagic and The abyssal and hadal ocean zones
    the most sunlit, which bathypelagic ocean zones still have little to no sunlight, meaning
    allows it to have the have some sunlight, so there is that organisms must obtain nutrients
    most nutrients for a still some nutrients from via chemosynthesis or from sediments
    vast diversity of photosynthetic organisms. Some which have settled on the ocean
    marine creatures like examples of creatures from floor. Some examples of creatures
    sea turtles, dolphins, these zones are a variety of that live in these zones are
    whales, a large variety squids, crustaceans, jellyfish, tubeworms, decapods, and a variety of
    of fish, etc. swordfish, etc. other deep-sea fish and organisms.

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