Divisions of the Global Ocean
The percent of Earth's surface covered by water.
What is 70 to 75%?
Sodium chloride
What is salt?
Begins at the shoreline.
What is the continental shelf?
Technology that is based on the echo-ranging behavior of bats.
What is sonar?
The largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The amount of dissolved solids in a liquid.
What is salinity?
Mountain chains formed by magma coming through rift zones.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
It use to be volcanoes.
What are Guyots
The Arctic Ocean.
What is the smallest ocean?
A scientist who studies the processes of the Ocean
What is an Oceanographer
Precipitation
What are droplets that fall back to the Earth's surface.
It is covered by mud and the remains of tiny marine organisms. It is the flattest place in the Ocean.
What is the abyssal plain?
These landforms erupted ash, lava and gases and formed Earth's atmosphere.
What are volcanoes?
The third largest ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean?
These slow-moving areas have a higher salinity.
What are Oceans and Seas.
Water vapor cools and turns to liquid water on dust particles.
What is condensation?
Huge cracks in the deep-ocean basin.
What are ocean trenches?
The deepest place on Earth
What is the Marianna Trench
The second largest ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Water temperature __________ as depth decreases.
What is increases?
Liquid water is heated by the sun and rises as a gas into the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
Which of the following can be seen above water?
A. Seamounts B. Islands C. Guyots D. Both A and C
The ocean's ability to absorb and hold energy from the sunlight helps to regulate this.
What is temperatures in the atmosphere?