Ocean Floor
The part of the ocean floor that borders a continent.
What is the continental shelf?
Tides, waves, and currents
What are the basic motions of the ocean?
This is about how much of Earth is covered by oceans.
What is 70%?
The type of water ocean water is
What is salt water?
These stay the same in an experiment.
What are control variables?
The part of the ocean floor where you play and fish.
What is the continental shelf?
These mix ocean water and cause swells of water to rise.
What are waves?
One reason that sediment is on the ocean floor.
What is erosion?
Fish and sharks are examples of this type of organism.
What are swimming organisms?
This is what you are measuring in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
The flat part of the ocean floor that contains seamounts and islands.
What is the abyssal plain?
The cause of waves
What is wind?
Underwater mountains or volcanos
What are seamounts?
The amount of salt in water
What is salinity?
The independent variable is the variable that _____ in an experiment.
What is "the scientist changes"?
The deepest part of the ocean
What is a trench?
This can affect the navigation of ships.
What are currents?
This increases as you go deeper in the ocean
What is pressure?
This decreases as you get deeper in the ocean.
What is sunlight?
If a scientist tests the distance a car will travel on two ramps that have different heights. The dependent variable would be ___.
What is the distance the car travels?
The part of the ocean floor that is between the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor.
What is the continental slope?
Wind patterns and differences in temperature cause these.
What are currents?
Temperature, depth, & salinity depend on this.
What is location?
More runoff from more precipitation would cause this.
What is increased salinity?
If a scientist tests the distance a car will travel on two ramps that have different heights. The independent variable would be ___.
What is the height of the ramps?