What is a animal/plant that drifts with the a current.
100
sea mount
What is a small mountain that does not break the waters surface
100
open ocean zone
What is the ocean zone beyond continental shelfs
200
deep currents
What are currents that are driven by density
200
a trough
What is the lowest part of a wave
200
nekton
What is a free swimming animal
200
abyssal plain
What is a vast plain formed by thick layers of sediment
200
neirtic zone
What is the zone that is from the low tide line to a continental shelf
300
California current
What is a current that affects California's weather
300
wave length
What is the distance from one wave crest to another
300
benthos
What is an animal/plant that lives at the sea floor
300
continental shelf
What is an extension from a continent that eases into the ocean
300
inter-tidal zone
What is the zone that goes from the high tide line to the low tide line
400
gulf stream
What is a current that affects Florida's weather
400
wave height
What is the distance from the trough to the crest
400
dolphin
What is a nekton
400
a continental slope
What is a steep decline that ends the continental shelf
400
deep zone
What is the bottom part of the open ocean zone
500
Coriolis affect
What is the affect in which the Earth's rotation affects wind and currents
500
a tsunami
What is a natural disaster that occurs when a wave is getting closer to the shore and the wave height is increasing and wave length decreasing, forming a wall of water
500
diatom
What is a plankton
500
a trench
What is a break in a tectonic plate that leaves a big ravine under the sea
500
benthic zone
What is the zone right above the ocean floor where benthos live.