Ocean Floor
What is the deepest feature of the ocean called?
Oceanic Trench
What is the name of the ocean feature where most ocean life lives?
Continental shelf
Where is the Marianas Trench located ?
Pacific Ocean
Ocean currents are caused by this weather feature.
What is wind?
What is the flat, vast area of the ocean floor?
The abyssal plain
This is the flat, smooth area of the ocean floor.
What is the abyssal plain.
These are patterns of ocean water movement.
What are ocean currents?
Changes in _______ can affect the movement of ocean currents.
What is temperature?
The shallowest part of the ocean, where most plant and animal life live
What is the continental shelf?
A range of underwater mountains and valleys is an
What is oceanic ridge or Mid-ocean ridge
True or False ? The continental slope has a gentle
slant ?
False
What ocean is responsible for the warm weather in Europe ?
Atlantic Ocean
What is the steep slope at the edge of the continental shelf?
The continental slope
This is the warmest place in the ocean that has the least water pressure.
True or False ? There are volcanoes in the ocean.
True
This is the direction that ocean currents move above the equator. Clockwise or Counterclockwise ?
What is clockwise?
These features of the ocean floor are very deep and similar to canyons on land.
What are trenches.
As the ocean water gets deeper, what happens to the light, pressure and temperature?
Light decreases, temperature decreases, and pressure increases
This is the type of technology that helps scientists explore the ocean floor. It is based on the echo-ranging behavior of bats.(Sound waves)
What is a sonar
This is the direction that ocean currents move below the equator. Clockwise or Counterclockwise ?
What is counterclockwise?