Step 3 - Slice the squash. Just take a sharp knife and cut of both ends (about 1/4 of an inch, or half the width of an average woman's little finger) Slice 1/2-inch thick slices. Prepare quickly, (if you leave it sit out cut up for more than a half hour, it will start to discolor).
The benthic zone begins at the edge of the sea at the intertidal zone, extends out along the continental shelf, and continues down the continental slope to the abyssal plain, thousands of meters below sea level.
Oligochaete worms were another common benthic invertebrate found at all. depths. The worms were particularly abundant at the 20 m site on the north end of the. lake in June and the 10 m and 20 m sites on the south end in October (Figure 8).