Landforms/Natural Disasters
Ocean Floor
Ocean Features
Conservation and Pollution
Water movement
100

These landforms are created when sediment flows down the river and is deposited on each side.

What are valleys?

100
Under water mountain ranges
What is a mid ocean ridge
100
A large body of salt water
What is the ocean
100

3 types of pollution

What are air, water, and land

100

These control which direction water moves

What are currents

200

An opening in the Earth's surface in which lava flows

What is a volcano?

200
Deepest part of the ocean floor
What are trenches
200
natural body of moving water
What is a river
200
The things that make up an area-air, water, and land form an
What is an enviornment
200
Tides are controlled by
The moon
300

These landforms are formed when walls are weathered and eroded by a flowing river.

What is a canyon?

300
Wide flat area of the ocean floor
What is the abyssal plain
300

A large body of water mixed with salt and freshwater

What is an estuary?

300

when gases combine with water droplets in the air it forms...

Acid rain forms

300
to make a new product out of old materials
What is to recycle
400

These storms cause sand and other sediments to be deposited almost a mile inland away from the shoreline.

What are tsunamis?

400
Where the ocean floor is covered by shallow water and gradually slopes down.
What is the continental shelf
400
Where river water and ocean water meet
What is estuary
400
When a harmful substance is added to the enviornment
What is pollution
400

The ongoing movement of ocean water

What is a wave

500

This process causes cracks in rocks when water freezes and thaws or wind hits it continuously.

What is weathering?

500
At the end of the continental slope is a gradual downward slope called a
What is a continental rise
500
A lighthouse is now 1.5 miles away from it's original location. Why did this happen? Scientists believe the wind is pushing the waves up to the beach at an angle, they then retreat down at a different angle due to gravity. What are the waves doing to the land?

Waves moved the sand and changed the shape of the land.

500
A study of habitats adjacent to a nearby farmland produced high levels of chemicals sprayed on crops. Large numbers of aquatic animals are found dead in nearby streams and large amounts of algae are growing in the nearby streams. Why would the farmland affect the stream?

The runoff from the farmland is affecting life in the watershed downstream of the the farm.

500
A narrow body of water off of a larger body of water
What is an inlet
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