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.
Photic zone. The photic zone, euphotic zone, or sunlight zone is the depth of the water in a lake or ocean that is exposed to sufficient sunlight for photosynthesis to occur. It extends from the surface down to a depth where light intensity falls to one percent of that at the surface, called the euphotic depth.