Miscellaneous
What are earthquakes?
The highest point of a wave.
What is the crest?
Deep extremely flat surface.
What is an abyssal plain?
The Sun, Earth and Moon in a straight line where high tides are higher and low tides are lower.
What is a spring tide?
Once active, eroded volcano with a flat top.
What is a guyot?
The major causes of tides is____.
The lowest point on a wave.
What is the trough?
Marks the seaward edge of the continental shelf (very steep).
What is the continental slope?
When the Sun, Earth and Moon are at 90 degree angles and the tides are normal.
What is a Neap Tide?
Submerged volcano on the seafloor.
What is a seamount?
This affects the density of water.
What is salinity?
The measurement between 2 crests of a wave.
What it the wavelength?
Location where the continental slope merges into the ocean floor.
What is the continental rise?
Current that runs parallel to the shore.
What is a longshore current?
What is a hot spot?
A narrow strip of land that forms from longshore currents.
What is a barrier island?
The distance between the crest and the trough of the wave.
What is the wave height?
Gently sloping submerged surface extending from the shoreline.
What is the continental shelf?
Strong current that runs perpendicular from the shore and pulls swimmers under.
What is a rip current?
Current caused by the wind.
What is a surface current?
The part of the wave that moves steadily forward.
What are tides?
The continental shelf, slope and rise are all part of this.
What is the continental margin?
What is the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean?
Current caused by differences in the temperature and salinity of ocean water.
What is a density current?