identify oceans
characteristics of oceans
ocean floor
ocean motions
mixture
100
Artic, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian
What are the four major oceans?
100
The word that means how deep or shallow the ocean is.
What is depth?
100
This is the shallow area at the edges of the continents. This is the part of the ocean floor we can stand on.
What is the continental shelf?
100
The top part of a wave
What is the crest?
100
When the wind blows, it creates this type which moves the waves
What is energy?
200
71%
What is how much water is there on Earth?
200
As the depth of the ocean increases, this increases
What is pressure?
200
This is a steep slope that connects the continent to the ocean floor.
What is the continental slope?
200
The bottom part of the wave
What is the trough?
200
This is a huge stream of water that moves through the ocean.
What is a current?
300
The biggest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
As the ocean gets deepens, this cannot reach the bottom of the ocean.
What is sunlight?
300
This is the flat smooth part of the deep ocean floor.
What is the abyssal plain?
300
The distance between one wave crest to another wave crest.
What is the wave length?
300
The two types of currents
What are surface currents and deep currents?
400
The smallest and coldest ocean on Earth
What is the Artic Ocean?
400
As the ocean deepens, this decreases or drops
What is temperature of the ocean water?
400
These are valley that cut deep into the ocean floor.
What are trenches?
400
The top of the wave to the bottom
What is wave height?
400
These are isolated volcanic mountains.
What is seamounts?
500
The ocean that borders Virginia on the east coast of our country and also connects the North American continent with Europe.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
500
This makes ocean water more dense and therefore objects float better in ocean water.
What is salt?
500
These are considered underwater mountain ranges.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
500
Waves are created by this
What is wind?
500
This word means the amount of salt in the ocean?
What is salinity?
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