Sea-ing is believing
Fish often migrate this direction during the day.
What is downward?
The classification of Mount Shasta, a volcano in northern California that is composed of both cinders and hardened lava flows.
What is a composite volcano / stratovolcano?
This occurs when algae leave coral due to harsh environmental conditions.
Isolated underwater mountains.
What are seamounts?
The location on Earth's surface directly above the origin of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
The sea otter is a keystone species in this coastal ecosystem.
What is a kelp forest?
The tectonic setting of Hawaii and Yellowstone.
What is a hotspot?
These organized waves form where fast winds with a long fetch are sustained over the open ocean.
What are swells?
These recessed coastlines that often contain beaches.
What is an embayment?
The type of plate boundary where two tectonic plates are moving away from each other.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
Organisms that produce their own light are called this.
These dense flows of hot ash, lava fragments, and gases are ejected explosively from a volcano and flow downslope at great speeds.
What are pyroclastic flows?
The best tidal conditions for exploring tide pools.
What is daily low tide during Spring tide?
These ring-shaped landforms are composed of coral and often contain a lagoon.
What are atolls?
The process of two tectonic plates with equal densities converging.
What is collision?
Manatees are common in this type of coastal environment.
What are seagrass meadows?
VEI stands for this.
What is Volcanic Explosivity Index?
Sand is transferred along a beach through this process.
What is longshore drift?
These coastlines have experienced a relative drop in sea level.
What are emergent coastlines?
This process occurs when relatively dense tectonic plates melt and create volcanoes at a convergent plate boundary.
What is subduction?
These isolated mountains provide important rest and feeding opportunities for ocean organisms that migrate long distances.
What are sea mounts?
Hawaii is this type of volcano
What is a shield volcano?
Many marine organisms produce their own light through this process.
What is bioluminescense?
These underwater mountain ranges form at divergent plate boundaries.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
The San Andreas fault occurs at this type of tectonic plate boundary.
What is a transform plate boundary?