Under Water Topography
Ocean and Seas
Name that Current
Name its temperature and rotation.
Thinking Questions
100

Under water flat topped volcanic mountain.

What is a Guyot

100

Largest of the world Oceans.

What is the pacific?

100

The warm current of the East Coast of North America.

What is the Gulf Stream?

100

The Gulf Stream's Temp and direction of rotation

What is warm and Clockwise?

100

The mechanisms that make Tsunamis so much larger than ordinary wind generated waves.

What are Landslides and Earthquakes?

200

The name for the bottom of the ocean nearest the shore

What is the continental shelf

200

This ocean circles the globe.

What is the southern ocean? 

200

The current off of the west coast of North America Washington state and further south.

What is the California current?

200

What is the California Current's temperature and direction.

What is cold and clockwise?

200

How do water molecules move within a wave.

What is in a circular motion lifted moved forward dropped and then returned?

300

The abruptly deepening portion of the ocean floor near continents?

What is the continental slope.

300

The ocean between Europe and North America.

What is the Atlantic Ocean

300

The current that runs north past Japan.

What is the Kuroshio Current?

300

The Kuroshio currents temperature and rotation is.

What is warm and clockwise?

300

Beaches change shape and size because of ___________.

What is wave erosion?

400

The huge flat deep portion of the ocean floor.

What is the Abyssal plain.

400

The body of water separating Europ from Africa.

What is the Mediterranean Sea?

400

The current running past Chilie's coast.

What is the Humboldt? What is the Peruvian?

400

The Humboldt's temperature and rotation.

What is cold and counterclockwise?

400

Why is there a rift valley within the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

What is due to the spreading of the tectonic plates?

500

The ocean feature that contains the deepest parts of the ocean.

What are ocean trenches?

500

The cold body of water between Russia and north America.

What is the Bering Sea?

500

The current that encircles the entire globe.

What is the west wind drift?

500

The South Equitorial Current's temperature and rotation.

What is Warm and Counterclockwise?

500

Define the Coriolis Effect.

What is the apparent deflection of fluids (moving object) when traveling north or south caused by the relative velocity due to the rotation of the earth?

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