measuring devices
floating observation station that takes measurements and sends data to oceanographers
what is oceanographic buoy
device that determines the size, distance and direction of any solid object in the water using echoes
what is a sonar
An underwater mountain range
What is a mid-ocean ridge
underwater mountain stretching through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
What is Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The device used to determine the physical properties of water
What is the conductivity, temperature and depth sensor
weighted bottle used by oceanographers to measure ocean currents
What is drift bottle
strong current that forms when wave retreats through gaps in sandbars
what is rip current
What is a large valley that looks like the crust is separating
What is a rift
Lower level area that contains the oceans
What is the ocean basins
weighted bottle used by oceanographer to measure ocean currents
What is a drift bottle
plastic tube on a weighted line that goes int the ocean to collect water samples at different depths
what is a Niskin bottle
wave that are gentle and rolling during calm weather
what are ocean swells
The level of the deep ocean floor
What is the abyssal plain
region that gently slopes away from the continental slope
What is the continental rise
thermometer that transmitting temperatures at different levels and sends reading back to ships at the surface
What is an expendable bathy thermograph
framework that contains many water-sample tubes to collect samples from different depths
what is rosette
lowest point of wave between crests
What is trough
A mountain under the sea
what is a seamount
The deepest point in the ocean
What is Challenger Deep or Marianna Trench
An open tube used on sea floor that punctures the sediments and collects samples
What is a gravity corer
white crest waves due to shallow water
what is breakers
current that flows horizontally along the ocean
what is surface current
Coral reef that has a circular pattern
what is atoll
Salty, shallow water in the center of a circular coral-reef island
What is a lagoon
device that drifts with deep ocean currents and regularly reports its location and water conditions
What is profiling float