Ocean Floor
A gently sloping shelf of land extending from the shoreline to the continental edge (shallowest part)?
What is the continental shelf?
This term is used to describe the total amount of dissolved salts in the ocean
What is salinity?
An inactive volcano on the ocean floor whose top has been eroded?
What is a guyot?
The rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.
What are tides?
Top of a wave
What is the crest?
The flat plains of the ocean floor
What are the abyssal plains?
A property of water that increases as you go deeper into the ocean
What is pressure or density?
The largest mountain range in the world if found at one of these
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
When the moon is full or new, the gravitational pull of the moon and sun are combined. At these times, the high tides are very high and the low tides are very low. This is known as
What are spring tides?
Bottom of a wave
What is a trough?
The steep outer edge of the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor
What is the continental slope?
Water that has less than 1% salinity
What is freshwater?
Deep valley or ditch on the ocean floor
What is a trench?
During the moon's quarter phases the sun and moon work at right angles, causing the bulges to cancel each other. The result is a smaller difference between high and low tides and is known as
What are neap tides?
the distance from the top of one wave to the top of the next wave
What is wave length?
a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose sediment
What is a beach?
These are the 3 temperature zones of the ocean
What are surface, thermocline, and deep zones?
An underwater volcano
What is a seamount?
These pools are home to many kinds of sea plants and animals and are found where the ocean meets the shore
What are tide pools?
The vertical distance between a wave's crest and the next trough
What is the wave height?
The most shallow part of the ocean, near the landmass
What is the continental shelf?
What is upwelling?
A landform that is created when the mouth of a river enters into a larger body of water, such as an ocean
What is a delta?
During this tide, waves generally have more water in between them and the bottom. The waves tend to spill over and onto themselves causing mushy or slower waves
What are high tides?
These waves start deep in the ocean floor are usually started by earthquakes and can reach up to and above 40 meters in height.
What is a tsunami?