What are the three zones of water depth?

The ocean is generally divided into three zones which are named based on the amount of sunlight they receive: the euphotic, dysphotic, and aphotic zones.
  • Euphotic Zone (Sunlight Zone or Epipelagic Zone) ...
  • Dysphotic Zone (Twilight Zone or Mesopelagic Zone) ...
  • Aphotic Zone (Bathypelagic, Abyssopelagic, and Hadopelagic Zones)




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Summary. English: The three primary zones of a lake are the littoral, open-water (also called the photic or limnetic), and deep-water (also called the aphotic or profundal) zones. If the above link no longer works, visit http://www.ck12.org and search for CK-12 Earth Science.

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