Ocean Water
Waves and Tides
Seafloor
Ocean Life
Ocean Pollution
100
Covers 70% of Earth's Surface
What are the oceans?
100
A rhythmic movement that carries energy through matter or space
What is a wave?
100

Where you are standing when you're in the water at the beach.

What is the continental shelf?
100
Oxygen and food
What are the products of photosynthesis?
100
The introduction of harmful waste products, chemicals and other substances not native to an environment
What is pollution?
200
Living things, minerals, gases, salts, food
What does ocean water contain?
200
Crest
What is the highest part of a wave?
200

Steep drop-off from the edge of the continental shelf to the ocean floor.


What is the continental slope?

200
Chemosynthesis
What is the process used by organisms on the sea floor to make food in the absence of sunlight?
200
Sewage, chemicals, oil and solid waste
What are four sources of ocean pollution?
300
The process used to make saltwater drinkable.
What is desalination?
300
Trough
What is the lowest part of a wave?
300
Flat seafloor areas
What is the abyssal plain?
300
Zooplankton and Phytoplankton
What are animal like plankton and plant like plankton?
300
Effects of pollution
What are damage to coastal environments, fish kills, human illnesses and death, algae blooms and red tides?
400
Volcanoes and chemical reactions in the atmosphere
What caused the formation of water on Earth?
400
Wind
What causes waves in bodies of water?
400
Ooze
What covers the seafloor? What are remains of life in the sea that settles to the sea floor called?
400
Animals that actively swim
What are nekton?
400
A fish surrounded by a circle with a line through it painted on sewers
What is a sysmbol which tells you not to put polluting materials into this sewer because it empties into a body of water?
500
3.5 billion years old
What is the age of water on earth?
500
Results from the gravitiational pull of the Moon and the Sun on Earth's water.
What are Tides?
500
Jacques Piccard and Donald Walsh
Who dove into the Mariana Trench in the Trieste?
500
Animals living on the seafloor
Whatare benthos?
500
Our responsibility
What is making sure to prevent and control the pollution of the oceans?
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