Earth's Processes
Ocean Floor
Ocean Features
Conservation and Pollution
Random
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What causes an earthquake?
When earth's plates shift. They may move away from each other, slide across one another or bump into each other.
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
Tides change every
6 hours
200
When the Earth's plates cross over a hot spot.
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
A crack in the Earth's plates.
What is a fault
300
Wide flat area of the ocean floor
What is the abyssal plain
300
a small river or stream
What is a tributary
300
when gases combine with water droplets
Acid rain forms
300
to make a new product out of old materials
What is to recycle
400
Gigantic slabs of rock that make up Earth's crust
What are plates
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 current
500
Usually caused by Earthquakes on the ocean floor
What is a tsunami
500
At the end of the continental slope is a gradual downward slope called a
What is a continental rise
500
the mass of land that forms at the mouth of a river
What is a delta
500
A mix of dead or decaying matter-food scraps, fallen leaves, and cut grass
What is a compost
500
A narrow body of water off of a larger body of water
What is an inlet
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