Motions of the Ocean
This causes waves.
What is wind?
This is otherwise known as "animal plankton".
What is zooplankton?
What is the abyssal plain?
The saltiness of water.
What is salinity?
This much of the surface of the Earth is covered by oceans.
What is 70%?
These are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon.
What are tides?
More than one food chain makes this.
What is food web?
This is considered the deepest part of the ocean.
What is an Ocean Trench?
This term describes the highest part of a wave.
What is crest?
The amount of salt water contains.
What is salinity?
This is a warm river of water in the Atlantic Ocean moving north along the East Coast of the United States.
What is the Gulf Stream?
Bacteria is just one example of this part of the food web.
What is decomposer?
This is the steep area where the ocean rapidly gets deeper.
What is the continental slope?
The rise and fall of water level in the ocean.
What is a tide?
Force pressing against whatever it surrounds. The deeper you go in the ocean, the more of this there is.
What is pressure?
These are the three motions of the ocean.
What are waves, currents, tides?
As you go down deeper in the ocean, there is a _______ in the amount of ocean organisms.
What is decrease?
This is the part of the ocean floor that is where you wade in the waves at the beach.
What is the continental shelf?
This term describes the distance from one wave crest to another.
What is wavelength?
Colder water is more ___________ which makes it sink to the bottom of the ocean.
What is dense?
These cause deep ocean currents.
What are change in temperature and salinity?
This produces much of the Earth's oxygen and serves as the base of the ocean ecosystem.
What is plankton?
These are large volcanoes rising out of the ocean floor.
What are seamounts?
A mixture of salt and fresh water.
Sunlight __________ the deeper you go in the ocean
What is decreases?