Ocean Floor
What is the deepest feature of the ocean called?
Oceanic Trench
What is the study of the depth of the ocean called
Bathymetry
What is the amount of salt in a body of water known as?
Salinity
Ocean currents are caused by this weather feature.
What is wind?
People lie on me and along me
Beach
Occurs at divergent plate boundaries, where two lithospheric plates move apart.
Seafloor spreading
List two resources that come from the ocean floor
Oil and Natural
These are patterns of ocean water movement.
What are ocean currents?
Changes in _______ can affect the movement of ocean currents.
What is temperature?
I am a nearly flat region of the deep ocean floor.
Abyssal Plain
The shallowest part of the ocean, where most plant and animal life live
What is the continental shelf?
A range of underwater mountains and valleys is an
What is oceanic ridge or Mid-ocean ridge
_______________ is the force of water pressing against whatever it surrounds.
What is water pressure
This is the ocean current in the Atlantic Ocean that is responsible for the warm weather in Europe.
What is the Gulf Stream?
I am located at the base of the continental slope
Continental rise
What is the steep slope at the edge of the continental shelf?
The continental slope
This is the warmest place in the ocean that has the least water pressure.
This ocean plant is a producer. It also provides lots of the world's oxygen.
What is algae?
This is the direction that ocean currents move above the equator.
West
Largest mountain range caused by sea floor spreading
Mid ocean ridge
These features of the ocean floor are very deep and similar to canyons on land.
What are trenches.
As the ocean water gets deeper, what happens to the light, pressure and temperature?
Light decreases, temperature decreases, and pressure increases
This is the type of technology that helps scientists explore the ocean floor. It is based on the echo-ranging behavior of bats.(Sound waves)
What is a sonar
This is the direction that ocean currents move below the equator.
East
I study the ocean floor
Oceanographer