Where are the majority of marine organisms found?
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Where in the ocean are the majority of marine organisms found? Where is the zone in the ocean that the majority of marine organisms are found?
coastal habitats and coral reefs
Photic zone photic zone, euphotic zone, epipelagic zone or sunlight (or sunlit) zone
Marine life Marine habitats Photic zone
Where are the majority of marine organisms found?
Marine habitats Marine life Photic zone Marine microorganism Euryhaline Marine debris Shallow water marine environment Marine invertebrates Benthic zone Plankton
<b>Most marine life</b> is <b>found</b> in coastal habitats, even though the shelf area occupies 
only seven percent of the total ocean area. Open ocean habitats are <b>found</b> in the
&nbsp;... <b>Marine life</b>, or sea life or ocean life, is the plants, animals and other organisms 
that live in the ... <b>Most</b> life forms evolved initially in marine habitats. By volume, 
oceans ... However water is <b>found</b> elsewhere in the solar system. Europa, one of 
the&nbsp;... The photic zone is home to the <b>majority of marine life</b>, due to its location. 
Contents. 1 Photosynthesis in photic zone; 2 Life in the&nbsp;... <b>Marine</b> microorganisms are defined by their habitat as the microorganisms living 
in a <b>marine</b> environment, that is, in the saltwater of a sea or ocean or the brackish 
water of a coastal estuary. A microorganism (or microbe or microbial) is any 
microscopic living <b>organism</b>, ... For about 3 billion years, <b>most organisms</b> were 
microscopic, and bacteria and&nbsp;... Euryhaline organisms are able to adapt to a wide range of salinities. An example 
of a ... Euryhaline organisms are commonly <b>found</b> in habitats such as estuaries 
and ... <b>Most</b> freshwater organisms are stenohaline, and will die in seawater, and 
similarly <b>most marine organisms</b> are stenohaline, and cannot live in fresh water. Marine debris, also known as marine litter, is human-created waste that has 
deliberately or ... More recent studies have <b>found</b> that more than half of plastic 
debris <b>found</b> on Korean ... Microplastics on the other hand harm smaller <b>marine</b> 
<b>life</b>. ... areas across all the oceans where the <b>majority</b> of plastic was being 
concentrated. Shallow water marine environment refers to the area between the shore and 
deeper water, ... The <b>most</b> common evaporite minerals <b>found</b> within modern and 
ancient deposits are ... It is said that if shallow marine environments can be 
defined by their distributional patterns of <b>marine organisms</b> in terms of 
temperature, then&nbsp;... <b>Marine</b> invertebrates are the invertebrates that live in <b>marine</b> habitats. 
Invertebrate is a blanket ... They make up <b>most</b> of the macroscopic <b>life</b> in the 
oceans. ... Different groups of <b>marine</b> worms are related only distantly, so they are 
<b>found</b> in&nbsp;... Human impacts have occurred at all ocean depths, but are <b>most</b> significant on 
shallow continental shelf and slope habitats. Many benthic <b>organisms</b> have 
retained&nbsp;... Plankton are the diverse collection of <b>organisms</b> that live in large bodies of water 
and are ... This is in contrast to nekton <b>organisms</b>, such as fish, squid and <b>marine</b> 
... <b>life</b> cycle as plankton (e.g. <b>most</b> algae, copepods, salps, and some jellyfish). ... 
plankton was only <b>discovered</b> during the 1980s, but they are thought to make up
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coastal habitats
Marine habitats