Vocabulary #1
Water & Waves
Miscellaneous
Zones
100
What is a deep canyon in the ocean floor?
What is a trench?
100
As you descend through the water column, the temperature
What is increases?
100
Why is a tsunami so destructive?
Because of its wave height
200
What is a large stream of moving water that flows through the oceans?
What is a current?
200
What is the most abundant salt in sea water?
What is sodium chloride?
200
What is a tsunami?
What is an earthquake underneath the water?
200
In which zone is ocean temperature most affected by the weather?
What is the surface zone?
300
What is the movement of particles through a body of water?
What is energy?
300
As a wave nears shore, the wave height increases and the wavelength
What is decreases?
300
What are organisms that live on the ocean floor? (Examples: crabs and lobsters)
What is benthos?
300
What is the part of the ocean located above the continental shelf?
What is the neritic zone?
400
What is the lowest point of a wave?
What is a trough?
400
Friction between the ocean floor and the water causes waves to slows down when it is near the
What is shore?
400
What causes cold, deep currents to form in the oceans near the poles?
What is the sinking of dense, cold water with high salinity?
400
In what zone do animals must be able to survive periods of being exposed to air as well as periods of being underwater?
What is the interidal?
500
What is the movement of sand along a beach?
What is a longshore drift?
500
What happens to the pressure of ocean water as depth increases?
What is increases?
500
What increases the salinity of sea water, since the salt is left behind as the water evaporates?
What is evaporation?
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