A deep, long feature that takes place at a convergent plate boundary is called a?
What is a deep ocean trench
100
A large circulating current system is a _______?
What is a gyre.
100
Where the waves are breaking is called the?
What is the surf
100
What is the name for an area f land that contributes water to a stream? and what are they separated by?
What is a drainage basin and a divide.
200
Which ocean is the largest and which is the smallest?
What is the pacific ocean and the arctic ocean
200
Mid ocean ridges are formed at ________ boundaries?
What is a divergent boundary.
200
What is caused by friction between the ocean and the wind that blows across its surface?
What is surface currents.
200
The area where the waves are moving onto the beach is called the
What is the swash
200
What is the upper limit of the zone of saturation?
What is the water table
300
What are 3 methods of mapping the sea floor?
What is SONAR, Satellites, and Submersibles.
300
An under water volcano is called a?
What is a seamount
300
What are the two wave motions and which way do they run?
What is transverse, perpendicular. And longitudinal, parallel.
300
The area where the water goes back out is called the?
What is the back wash
300
The zone above the water table is the
What is the zone of aeration
400
Which part of the continental margin is touching the beach?
What is the continental shelf.
400
When a seamount becomes an island, then starts to weather down it is called a?
What is a guyot
400
What causes tides?
What is the moons gravity, and to a lesser extent the suns gravity.
400
What is a description of sea arches and sea stacks and their relationship
What is a sea arch is created when two sea caves unite, and the sea stack is what is left when it collapses.
400
What is a huge underground lake, that distributes water, that is between layers of impermiable rock called?
What is an aquifer
500
Oceanography is a science that draws on the methods of what 4 sciences?
What is geology, chemistry, physics, and biology.
500
What are the 3 types of ocean sediments and where are they formed?
What is terrigenous sediment, formed on land. Biogenous sediment, made from living things in the ocean. And hydrogenous sediment, minerals that crystalize from water.
500
Do neap tides or spring tides have a larger tidal range?
What is spring tides.
500
Narrow sand bars that are above the water level, parallel to the sea, but separated from it are called?
What is barrier islands.
500
When too much fresh water is used near the coast, and salt water moves into the ground _____________ is occuring?