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.
To recap, benthic zones are found in all bodies of water, because this term refers to the bottom layer of water in a body of water. Benthos refers to the bottom layer of water and all the organisms that live in it. There are different layers where organisms live in the benthos; in the sediment (hyperbenthos), on top of the sediment (epibenthos), and in the sediment (endobenthos).