Ocean+Enviroment

PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT By: Sara Jimenez

__Epipelagic zone (0-200m)__ The epipelagic is the top layer that is not near the ocean bottom or the shore. it is the layer that gets the most light. Animals that live in that layer are pelagic birds and fishes. Both this fishes.

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__Mesopelagic zone (200-2,000m)__ Mesopelagic lies under the ocean surface with a temperatures of 4C - 20C. Not a big amount of light reaches it. animals that live in this layer are [|swordfish], [|squids] , [|wolf eels] , [|cuttlefish] ,

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__Bathypelagic zone (2,000-4,000m) __ has an average temperature of 4C. no light reaches there, since no light reaches there is know as the midnight zone. Animals that live there are nekton like whales and squids.

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__Abyssopelagic zone (4,000-6,000m) __ The deepest and darkest layer. No light reaches there what so ever. It has a temperature of 2C to 3C. There is not a lot of live there since of the couple amount of sun.

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