Ocean Floor
Salinity
Waves
What is .. ?
Others
100
Gentle sloping, pile of sediments at the bottom of the continental slope?
What is the continental rise?
100
What is salinity measured in?
What is parts per thousand?
100
What are ocean waves generated by?
What is the wind?
100
What is a surface current?
What is a current caused by wind?
100
Temperature _____ as you descend through the water.
What is decreases?
200
Describe a trench. What is the smooth part of the ocean floor?
What is subduction zone, convergent boundary, and deepest part? What is the abyssal plain?
200
Salinity is the lowest nearest _____. Salinity is the highest nearest _____.
What are the poles? What is the equator?
200
What causes the movement of water?
What is the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun?
200
What is a submerged volcano?
What is a seamount?
200
How many times do high tides and low tides occur in Hampton Roads?
What is two times a day?
300
"The true edge of the continent?"
What is the continental slope?
300
What is salinity?
What is the measure of dissolved salts?
300
In a _____ _____ the earth, moon, and sun are all aligned.
What is a spring tide?
300
What is an estuary?
What is a place where a freshwater river or stream enters the ocean?
300
What is the Coriolis Effect responsible for?
What is circular patterns of currents?
400
What are guyots?
What is flat topped extinct volcanoes?
400
Name one factor that can affect salinity. Does salinity increase, decrease, or stay constant?
What is precipitation, evaporation, sea ice melting, or rivers emptying into oceans? What is stays constant?
400
How does water in waves move?
What is in a circle or up and down?
400
What is sonar?
What is a technique that uses sound waves to measure the depth of the ocean floor?
400
What are the three parts of a wave?
What is the crest, the trough, and wavelength?
500
What is the Mid Ocean Ridge formed by? Where is the largest Mid Ocean Ridge located?
What is magma coming up through divergent boundary? What is in the Atlantic Ocean?
500
Where does salt come from? What two icons are most often present in seawater?
What is chemical weathering of rocks on land? What is chloride and sodium?
500
In a _____ _____ the sun and moon form a right angle.
What is a neap tide?
500
What is upwelling?
What is when surface water is blown away and cold nutrient rich water comes up from the bottom?
500
Brackish water is ...?
What is a mixture of partly fresh and partly salty water?
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