Ocean Floor
This is the area of the ocean where 6th grade students can play in the water.
What is the continental shelf?
What percent of the world is covered by water?
What is 70%?
The pressure becomes ____________ as you travel deeper down in the ocean.
What is greater?
These are the daily rise and fall of water levels that are caused by gravity due to the moon and the sun.
What are tides?
This is the shallow part of the ocean floor that begins at the shoreline and gently slopes underwater.
What is the continental shelf?
These mountains on the ocean floor are not tall enough to break the surface water.
What are seamounts?
These are mostly caused by wind, which is caused by energy from the sun.
What are waves?
Why would water at the surface of the ocean be warmer than water at the bottom of the ocean?
What is it receives more sunlight?
These are undersea earthquakes.
What are tsunamis?
These features of the ocean floor are very deep and similar to canyons on land.
What are trenches?
The Mariana Trench is located in this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
These can be described as "rivers in the ocean".
What are currents?
These currents are caused by global winds, the Coriolis Effect, and continental deflections.
What are surface currents?
This is how many high tides and low tides we have each day.
What is two?
This is the flat area of the ocean floor.
What is the abyssal plain?
These are the deepest parts of the ocean.
What are trenches?
Turtles may use these as forms of transportation.
What are ocean currents?
Density differences due to temperature and salinity cause these type of currents.
What are deep currents?
These tides are caused by the sun and moon being at right angles relative to the Earth.
What are neap tides?
This ocean feature begins at the edge of the continental shelf and plunges down to depths of over two miles. It is covered with thick layers of sand, mud, and rocks.
What is the continental slope?
Ranges of mountains on the ocean floor.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
This is another word for the amount of salt that is in our ocean water.
What is salinity?
This is the type of technology that helps scientists explore the ocean floor.
What is Sonar?
These tides are caused by an alignment of the Earth, moon, and sun.
What are spring tides?