Motion of the Ocean
Floor Features
Secrets of the Deep
Ocean Zones
Water Fun Facts
100
Ocean movement caused by winds.
What is a wave?
100
The area between the continental shelf and the continental rise; covered with sand, mud, and rocks
What is the continental slope?
100
The amount of salt dissolved into a liquid
What is salinity?
100
This ocean zone has the most amount of life in it.
What is the sunlite zone?
100
This much of the surface of the Earth is covered by oceans.
What is: 70%?
200
These are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon.
What are tides?
200
A deep narrow valley where two plates collide; considered the deepest part of the ocean
What is a trench?
200
These determine the salinity of ocean water that is near land.
What are: evaporation and run-off?
200
The zone of the ocean where the temperature is the lowest
What is the midnight zone?
200
This part of the ocean floor is the beach where people usually swim.
What is: the continental shelf?
300
This is a warm river of water in the Atlantic Ocean moving north along the East Coast of the United States.
What is the Gulf Stream?
300
This is the wide flat area that extends out from the bottom of the continental slope. The true ocean floor.
What is the abyssal plain?
300
This is how water with a high salinity compares to water with a low salinity.
What is more dense?
300
Small creatures with large eyes are found in this zone
What is the midnight zone?
300
The temperature on land is affected by this.
What is: the temperature of the surface of the ocean near the land?
400
These cause surface ocean currents.
What are: the wind & the rotation of the Earth?
400
Long mountain chains that run along the ocean floor; formed from volcanic activity
What are oceanic ridges?
400
This is what happens to temperature as you go deeper into the ocean.
What is: decreases?
400
Where you would likely find moderate pressure
What is the twilight zone
400
The way that waves can form new land
What is: deposition?
500
This causes deep ocean currents.
What is: change in temperature and salinity?
500
Where the continental crust meets the oceanic crust.
What is the continental rise?
500
This is what happens to water pressure as you go deeper into the ocean.
What is: increases?
500
The reason some creatures are about to live in the midnight zone
What are adaptations?
500
This produces much of the Earth's oxygen and serves as the base of the ocean ecosystem.
What is: plankton?
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