Divisions of the Global Ocean
Characteristics
The Water Cycle
The Ocean Floor
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100
The percent of Earth's surface covered by water.
What is 71%?
100
Sodium chloride
What is salt?
100
What are the three basic components of Earth.
What is water, land and clouds?
100
Begins at the shoreline.
What is the continental shelf?
100
Technology that is based on the echo-ranging behavior of bats.
What is sonar?
200
The largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
The amount of dissolved solids in a liquid.
What is salinity?
200
The continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean.
What is the water cycle?
200
Mountain chains formed by magma coming through rift zones.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
200
This series, and its Remake, featured human fleeing from the evil Cylons.
What is BattleStar Galatica?
300
The Arctic Ocean.
What is the smallest ocean?
300
These places have a higher salinity because the evaporation rate is higher.
What is hotter, drier climates.
300
Precipitation
What are droplets that fall back to the Earth's surface.
300
It is covered by mud and the remains of tiny marine organisms.
What is the abyssal plain?
300
This character in the LOTR series, has a split personality and a unhealthy obsession with rings. [Note, looking for original name]
Who is Smegal?
400
The third largest ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean?
400
These slow-moving areas have a higher salinity.
What are gulfs, bays and seas.
400
Water vapor cools and turns to liquid water on dust particles.
What is condensation?
400
Huge cracks in the deep-ocean basin.
What are ocean trenches?
400
A heroic human, heavily modified fights off aliens, zombies, and more aliens in this long running game series, with the help of a blue friend
What is Halo?
500
The second largest ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
500
Water temperature __________ as depth decreases.
What is increases?
500
Liquid water is heated by the sun and rises as a gas into the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
500
If the ocean were a giant swimming pool, the ____________ would be the shallow end.
What is the continental margin?
500
This video game character from the late 90's has spike blond hair, carries a big sword, and doesn't afraid of anything.
Who is Cloud Strife?
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