Ocean
Volcanoes
Island Formation
Fish and Fishing
Water Facts
100

75% or 3/4 of the ocean is located in this ocean zone.

Abyssal Zone

100

Lava that is below the earths surface is called by this name.

Magma.

100

This type of island is formed by humans.

Artificial Islands.

100

Caviar is a food made from salt cured roe or fish eggs. It is largely made from eggs from this fish.

Sturgeon

100

The chemical formula for water can be written like this.

H2O

200

This is the name of the largest ocean on the planet.

Pacific Ocean

200

The word volcano comes from this Roman name.

Vulcan

200

This type of island is formed by an oceanic plate moving over a single magma plume.

Hotspot Island

200

When this fish is sold commercially it is the most expensive fish.

Bluefin Tuna

200

A long high sea wave caused by an earthquake goes by this name.

Tsunami

300

What zone has 5850 pounds per square inch (680 kg per square cm)?

Midnight zone

300

Lava flow, ash fall, earthquakes, and noxious gas are all what?

volcanic hazards

300

Japan and the Aleutian Islands of Alaska are both examples of this type of island formation.

Island Arc

300

This type of fishing has high by catch and damages the ocean floor.

bottom trawling

300

Acid rain is created when these two chemicals are emitted into the atmosphere, undergo chemical transformation and are absorbed into water droplets in the clouds.

sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx)

400

The ocean floor is far from smooth. It has trench, ridges and other imperfections. The deepest trench goes by this name.

Mariana's Trench

400

Volcanoes can have one of these three designations.

Active, dormant, extinct

400

Continental islands are simply unsubmerged parts of the this that are entirely surrounded by water.

continental shelf

400

Commercial fishing requires a great deal of equipment. Nets or traps that have been left or lost in the ocean or lakes by fishermen go by this name.

Ghost fishing

400

Ocean density depends on these two factors.

Temperature and salinity

500

The ocean is full of life. In fact this wide ranging percent of the total life on earth is found in the ocean.

50% to 80%

500

The “Ring of Fire“, a 40,000 km horseshoe shaped area of the Pacific Ocean contains many of the worlds estimated ______ active volcanoes.

est. 1900

500

The Galapagos Islands are a place born of fire. In the last 200 years, a remarkable 50 plus eruptions have occurred. The largest island, which is made up of six volcanoes which have flowed into each other, goes by this name.

Isabela

500

This fish was depicted on some early coins of the infant United States, from 1776 to 1778 

Codfish

500

Contour maps that show features on the ocean floor are known by this name.


bathymetric or bathymetry.

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