benthic zone in a sentence

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1. They are particularly resistant to heat, and live in the benthic zone of the Gulf of Mexico.
2. The benthic zone of Port Foster is of great ecological interest due to the natural disturbance induced by the volcanic activity.
3. Because light is dead and decaying matter sustains the benthic food chain; most organisms in the benthic zone are scavengers or detritivores.
4. The nymphs ( technically, " naiads " ) are aquatic and live in the benthic zone of well-oxygenated lakes and streams.
5. Benthos is the community of organisms which live on, in, or near the seabed, the area known as the benthic zone.
6. Fish in the different pelagic and deep water benthic zones are physically structured, and behave in ways, that differ markedly from each other.
7. This is the "'midnight "'or bathypelagic zone, extending from 1000 metres to the bottom deep water benthic zone.
8. This is the "'midnight "'or bathypelagic zone, extending from 1000 m to the bottom deep water benthic zone.
9. Benthic gastropods were heavily preyed upon throughout the MMR, the weaker shelled types being pushed out of the benthic zone into more isolated habitats.
10. The benthic zone is the ecological region on, in and immediately above the seabed, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers.