Ocean Zones

Explanations 3

• The ocean is divided into sub-zones. The names depend on the amount of sunlight each of the zone gets. The first zone is called the sunlit zone, or the euphotic zone. This is th…

  By Samitha, Emmanuel Lee

• The layers of the ocean are divided by temperature and light. The first zone is the epipelagic zone, or the sunlight zone. The depth ranges from the surface to 200 meters. There…

  By Jiren the Gray, Victor Wang

• The Challenger Deep is the deepest known point in the Earth's seabed hydrosphere, with a depth of 10,898 to 10,916 m (35,755 to 35,814 ft) by direct measurement from submersible…

  By Emmanuel Lee, Ians