Sea Level
Always changing heights of the ocean at anytime
What is Local Sea Level?
This is the edge of the water at any given time.
What is the Shoreline?
Seamounts with flat tops.
What are guyots?
The largest bodies of water separating the continents.
What are Oceans?
An underwater erosional feature often found in a continental slope.
What is a Submarine Canyon?
The zero height used to measure elevation.
What is Mean Sea Level (MSL)?
The area where only the highest tides can reach.
What is a Berm?
Every Basin has one or more of these.
What is a Mid-Ocean Ridge?
Small to large bodies of saltwater, usually partially or completely surrounded by land.
What are Seas?
The relatively flat, deep ocean floor of an ocean basin.
What is an Abyssal Plain?
What are tide gauges?
The zone between the high and low-tide shorelines.
What is a Beachface?
Submerged volcanoes and hills.
Similar to seas, but usually smaller.
What is a Gulf?
A long, curved string of volcanic islands.
What is an Island Arc
What is Mean Sea Level (MSL)?
Where the waves first break and drop and sand that have moved from deeper water.
What is a Longshore Sandbar?
Important geologic features that form from the activities of animals.
What are Coral Reefs?
Normally smaller than gulfs and seas.
What is a Bay?
A thick deposits of loose sediments that create a transition from the continental slope to the ocean floor.
What is a Continental Rise?
This is an imaginary sea level surface that undulates all over the Earth.
What is a Geoid?
The breaking action of wave that dig a *blank* on the shore side of the longshore bar.
What is a Longshore Trough?
The deepest point in any ocean was found in this trench.
What is the Challenger Deep?
Narrow ocean passages separating land masses.
What is a Strait?
Deep, relatively narrow troughs in the ocean floor found in subduction zones adjacent to convergent plate boundaries.
What is an Oceanic Trench?