Ocean Geography
This ocean can be found on the East Coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic?
This is the word we use to refer to energy that passes through water and causes it to move up and down.
What are waves?
The seafloor has trapped pockets of this "black gold" hidden under its sands. Offshore rigs are built to harvest this resource.
What is oil?
In a percentage, about this much of Earth's surface is covered by water.
What is 70%? (Within 2%)
This is the author of Love That Dog.
Who is Sharon Creech?
This southernmost ocean is the subject of debate, as many argue that it is just the combination of three other oceans merging in cold waters.
What is the Antarctic Ocean?
This is the word we use to refer to water that is being physically moved from one location to another under the surface of the ocean.
What is a current?
The ocean has plenty of this--an important food source that mankind has relied upon for centuries.
What are fish? (i know, easy one)
What is five?
Minnesota's state tree is the Red Pine, also known by this name given to it by settlers from Scandinavia who believed it looked similar to the pine trees of their home country.
What is the Norway Pine?
This is the largest ocean by surface area, covering about 30% of Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Water slapping against a cliff to slowly wear down its sides is a type of this process, where repeated impact helps break rock apart.
What is weathering?
What is (sea) salt?
This is how many oxygen atoms are found in a single molecule of water.
What is one? (H2O --> two hydrogen, one oxygen)
This is the only card that costs 9 elixir in Clash Royale. It got a total rework and redesign in the most recent update.
What are the Three Musketeers?
This is the name of the deepest part of the Mariana Trench. It is named after the first ship to perform an oceanographic mission.
What is the Challenger Deep?
Rivers carry salt, dirt, and other material out to estuaries. Carrying these particles is part of this process, also known as "cleaning up" messes made by small particles.
What is erosion?
Deposits of this resource have been found along the ocean floor--ironically, it is neither a liquid like the ocean nor is it a solid like the sands that cover it.
What is natural gas?
According to our book, a "factory trawler" is capable of pulling in this many tons of fish in one sweep of their net. This is the same weight as a jumbo jet.
What is 400 tons?
After "SOUR," Olivia Rodrigo released her second studio album in 2023 with this title. This album was supported with the lead single "Vampire."
What is GUTS?
This is the title given to the mountain range found on the sea floor. It is longer than any mountain range on Earth's surface.
What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge?
Tsunamis are caused by strong earthquakes that result from this type of large-scale land movement.
What are plate tectonics/subduction zones? (similar answers accepted)
This is the name of the process where salt is removed from saltwater to create drinkable fresh water.
What is desalination?
If the original fishing limit of a lake was 20 fish per person and the limit was recently lowered by 25%, this would be the amount of fish you could catch now.
What is 15 fish?
The term "A.D." is an abbreviation for these two Latin words meaning "in the year of our Lord"--not the commonly assumed "After Death."
What is Anno Domini?