Motion
What is warm swift current orginitating in Gulf of Mexico and flowing into the North Atlantic?
This is located in the rift valley and emits heat allowing life to form.
What is a hydrothermal vent?
Highest point of a wave.
What is a crest?
Deep extremely flat surface covering most of the world.
What is the abyssal plain?
The major cause of the tides.
What is the gravitational pull of the sun and mostly the moon on Earth's water's.
A current that pulls away from the shore.
What is a rip current?
The 2 things that affect the density of seawater.
What is salinity and temperature?
Lowest point of a wave.
What is a trough?
Gently sloping submerged surface extending from the shoreline.
What is the continental shelf?
What is a Guyot?
This current forms sandbars and barrier islands.
What is a Longshore current?
What is the continental margin?
Current caused by the winds.
What is a surface current?
This marks the seaward edge of the continental shelf and is very steep.
What is the Continental Slope?
What is a tide?
A small grouping of rocks left after a sea arch erodes.
What is a sea stack?
A ring-shaped reef island or chain of islands formed of coral above a submerged volcano.
What is an atoll?
Current caused by differences in the temperature and salinity of the ocean.
What is a density current?
Submerged volcano on the seafloor.
What is a seamount?
Location where the abyssal plain goes up to the Continental Slope.
What is the Continental rise?
The difference in El Niño and La Niña
What is El Niño is warmer than normal water in the Pacific Ocean every 2-7 years and
La Niña is colder than normal water in the Pacific Ocean and follows El Niño?
The deepest place we have discovered in the ocean.
What is the Mariana Trench?
The location of the largest tides in the world.
What is the Bay of Fundy, in New Brunswick from Nova Scotia, Canada?
A sudden and rapid change in a shoreline.
What is avulsion?
A gradual deposition by water, mud or sand to form dry land.
What is accretion?