VOCABULARY 1
VOCABULARY 2
CURRENTS
TIDES
SHORES
100
The amount of salt in water
What is Salinity
100
A disturbance that carries energy through matter or space
What is a wave
100
Large Currents in the open ocean are called what?
What is Surface currents
100
When the water is highest of the day
What is High Tide
100
What are beaches made out of?
What is sand, pebble.
200
The downward push of water on a given area
What is water pressure
200
A stream of water that flows like a river through the ocean
What is a current
200
What currents are near the beach?
What is small currents
200
When the water is the lowest of the day
What is low tide
200
What causes the large shaped rocks on shore?
What is Natural weathering
300
The part of the ocean floor that drops gently near the land
What is a Continental shelf
300
The repeated rise and fall of the water level of the ocean
What is a tide
300
What kind of current carries water away from the beach?
What is a Rip Current
300
How many tides are there in a day
What is 4 tides
300
What makes rivers go into the Ocean?
What is a Estuarie
400
The part of the ocean floor that slopes steeply
What is a Continental slope
400
The areawhere the ocean and land meet and interact
What is a shore
400
A change in weather patterns over the Pacific Ocean
What is an El Nino
400
A temporary pool of Ocean water that gets trapped between rocks when the tide goes out
What is a tide pool
400
What type of sand is on every beach
What is a trick question, sand is all the same
500
A large, flat area of the ocean floor
What is an Abyssal plain
500
A point of land at the shore where hard rock is left behind and other materials are washed away
What is a headland
500
What current brings cooler water up towards the surface near the coast?
What is a Deep Ocean current
500
When the moon and sun align this tide occurs
What is a Spring tide
500
This happens when soft rock is worn away and hard rock is left behind to form a point of land
What is a headland
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