Terms
The name of an underwater mountain range.
What is the mid-ocean ridge.
All of the water on Earth, whether liquid, solid or gas is called the...
What is the hydrosphere?
A tsunami is caused by a(n) ______.
What is an earthquake?
Beaches are formed by a process called...
What is longshore drift?
What is the shore?
Another term used for underwater volcanic mountain.
What is a seamount?
The study of the ocean is known as...
Oceanography.
When the gravitational forces of the sun and moon are combined, a ____ tide occurs.
What is a spring tide?
A ____ is an offshore ridge made of sand and other sediments.
What is a sandbar?
This offshore ridge is make of sediments.
What is a sandbar?
The rock layer that holds water is called this.
What is an aquifer?
The ridge that separates two river systems is called...
What is the Drainage Divide?
A large stream that moves through the ocean is called what?
What is an ocean current?
What is protect?
A flat and mostly level floor of the ocean is called...
What is the abyssal plain?
This is the underwater continental crust.
What is the continental margin?
The Guld Stream is a warm _________ current.
What is surface?
Ocean water on the side of Earth facing the moon experiences this type of tide.
What is a high tide?
This type of island runs parallel to the mainland's shore.
What is a barrier Island?
The continental crust is the _____ part of the earth's crust. I.e Thick vs Thin; Wet vs dry.
What is thicker?
What is a drainage basin?
Two Major river systems are separated by a ___________ causing them to flow into two different oceans.
What is the continental divide?
A tide at its very lowest during a quarter moon called this type of tide.
What is a neap tide?
This low area of land near the coast floodes with the tide.
What is a salt marsh?
A _______ believes that catastrophic plate activity during the Flood caused much of the sea floor to open quickly.
What is a creationist?