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Deep SeaBy, Alyssa Failla

Adaptations of Living Organsims in the Deep Sea

• well-developed muscles and bones

• somewhat streamlined• possess bioluminescent

(light-producing)

Viper Fish

•Have long feelers•Some have skin that wriggles

Temperatures

34-42 degrees

104 degrees' Celsius

Unbearable for Humans?

• Humans can travel three or four atmospheres and still stay alive!

• After that: air bubbles will form in body, too much pressure, eardrums imploding.

How can creatures do it but humans can’t??

• Fish don’t contain as much gas as humans do.

• The oxygen in our blood.

• Their bodily water pressure is at the same pressure as the water in the surroundings.

World Records

• Eight people have gown 800 feet deep in the deep sea. Though the ocean is about 7 miles deep.

Layers of Deep Sea(five layers)

3. Bathypelagic Zone (Midnight Zone) - Extends from 1000 meters to 4000 meters

4. Abyssopelagic Zone (Abyssal Zone) - Extends 4000 meters to 6000 meters

5. Hadalpelagic Zone - Extends 6000 to the bottom of the ocean

Environment of Deep Sea

• Small amout of oxygen

• Very little food

• No sunlight

• Constant extreme cold

Species of the “bottom”Cartilaginous fish •It uses it long snout to scan over the sea

floor for the electrical impulsesof its prey that bury in the muddy sea floor.

Colossal Squid,

• Its large heads and large mouths and eyes, they have slender bodies that taper greatly to a very thin caudal peduncle or tail.

Antartic Icefish•Live at seawater temperatures between of -2°C and 4°C. •Have no red blood cells

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