Waves
Water
Sea Floor
Ocean Life
Potpourri
100
The rise and fall of of sea level caused by gravity (the moon)
What is a tide?
100
The world gets 1/3 of its supply of this from the ocean.
What is salt?
100
The ocean originally formed when these filled up with rain water.
What are basins?
100
The organisms on the bottom of the food chain that make their own food are called this.
What are producers?
100
This type of pollution includes Styrofoam, tires, chip bags, and old clothes.
What is solid waste pollution?
200
Lowest point of a wave.
What is a trough?
200
This is another name for table salt.
What is halite or sodium chloride?
200
These are formed when one crustal plate is forced under another.
What are trenches?
200
These organisms eat other organisms to survive.
What are consumers?
200
This percentage of the world is ocean.
What is 70%?
300
This is the only thing that moves forward in a wave.
What is the energy?
300
Most of the ions in seawater are made up of these ions.
What is sodium and chloride?
300
These are the flattest part of the ocean.
What are abyssal plains?
300
This type of ocean life includes diatoms and jellyfish.
What are plankton?
300
This type of current happens when more dense seawater sinks beneath less dense seawater.
What is a density current?
400
The distance between one trough to the next trough.
What is a wavelength?
400
Currents that are powered by wind are called this.
What are surface currents?
400
This is the steep drop off that happens right after the continental shelf.
What is the continental slope?
400
This ocean habitat is a colony of coral that has been joined together.
What is a coral reef?
400
The process of making food using light, energy from the sun, carbon dioxide, and water.
What is photosynthesis?
500
The name we give to a collapsing wave.
What is a breaker?
500
This is the removal of salt from ocean water.
What is desalination?
500
Organisms on the bottom of the ocean have to do this because there is no light for them to perform photosynthesis.
What is chemosynthesis?
500
These types of ocean life live at the bottom of the ocean and are usually scavengers.
What are benthos?
500
This is the source of nearly all energy on Earth.
What is the sun?
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