Seawater and Sediment
This term is often used to descibe polar waters, because the density of the water column is similar at all depths
Isopycnal
A shallow-water wave occurs when the depth is less than this fraction of the wavelength
1/20
This movement of water will occur as wind blows toward the south off the coast of California.
Upwelling
This ocean feature is formed from the erosion of a seamount.
Guyot
These records are often analyzed for their oxygen isotope concentrations.
Sediment cores
This type of water, often found near estuaries, has a salinity between freshwater and saline water.
Brackish water
This type of tidal pattern has a period of 24 hours and 50 minutes
Diurnal tide
This water mass is formed at the Norweigan Sea
North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW)
The theory of coral reef development was proposed by this scientist.
Charles Darwin
This process occurs as more and more CO2 is absorbed by the oceans.
Ocean acidification
These calcareous organisms are the primary component of chalk deposits
Coccolithophores
This system uses the visual appearance of the ocean to estimate the wind speed.
Beaufort Wind Scale
This phenomenon affects sea surface temperatures in the North Pacific and occurs on a long timescale.
Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)
This feature of the continental margin has an average slope of 4 degrees
Continental slope
This tool uses sound waves to measure the speed of the water current.
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)
This term refers to the average amount of time a substance, like sodium, stays in the ocean.
Residence time
This type of breaking wave is associated with an air pocket
Plunging breaker
As an ocean current meanders, this clockwise-rotating feature that exhibits downwelling can pinch off and form.
Warm-core ring/eddy
This type of hydrothermal vent contains high amounts of metals.
Black smoker
This term refers to the boundary between westerlies and trade winds.
Horse latitudes
These deposits, exhibiting graded bedding, are created by turbidity currents
Turbidite deposits
This term refers to locations on the Earth's surface where the tidal range is always 0.
Amphidromic points
This type of current occurs because the western side of a basin is at a higher elevation compared to the eastern side.
Equatorial countercurrent
This feature is the final step in the erosion of a headland.
Sea stack
This climate system refers to the north-south movement of the strong westerly winds that encircle Antarctica.
Southern Annular Mode (SAM)