All About That Basin
Highs and Lows
First Step's a Doozy
The Briny Deep
Zoning Laws
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The number of ocean basins on the Earth
What is four?
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Undersea volcanoes and hills
What are seamounts?
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A strip of land that separates the coastal region from the ocean
What is the shore?
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The term for amount of saltiness
What is salinity?
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The zone which lies between the high and low tide marks
What is the intertidal zone?
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The smallest ocean basin
What is the Arctic Ocean?
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Seamounts with flat tops
What are guyots?
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The submerged edges of continental plates
What are continental shelves?
200
The two elements that make up table salt
What are sodium and chloride?
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The zone which lies along the bottom of ocean basins
What is the abyssal zone?
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The ocean bordered by Africa, Asia, and Austraila
What is the Indian Ocean?
300
Long mountain ranges that lie at the bottom of the ocean
What are mid-oceanic ridges?
300
The upper edge of the deep ocean basins
What is the continental slope?
300
The process of removing salt from sea water
What is desalination?
300
The zone of open ocean that ends where sunlight stops
What is the photic zone?
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The ocean between Europe and North America
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
Deep troughs created by subducting tectonic plates
What are oceanic trenches?
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The relatively flat, deep sea floor
What is the abyssal plain?
400
The temperature at which sea water freezes
What is -1.8 Celsius or 28.9 Fahrenheit?
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The zone which lies below any light, but above any arctic cold
What is the aphotic zone?
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The largest ocean basin
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
Long chains of volcanoes that rise above the ocean's surface
What are island arcs?
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A deep notch in the continental shelf or slope
What is a submarine canyon?
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The region of the ocean where the temperature is warmest
What are the tropics?
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The zone below the tide line, characterised by plentiful sunlight and nutrients
What is the littoral zone?
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