Oceans
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Hydrothermal Vents
Key Terms
100
What Oceanographers study to better understand the oceans
What is Chemistry, Geology, Physics and Biology?
100
They form at Convergent Boundaries.
What is Deep-Ocean Trenches?
100
A compound that lowers the oceans pH
What is Carbon Dioxide?
100
The process of minerals spreading. (Explain the process)
Magma heats water that shoots out the Hydrothermal Vents spreading out minerals and water that eventually settle along the seafloor
100
The mapping and charting the oceans topography and shapes of the ocean floor
What is Bathymetry?
200
This ocean is slightly smaller than the Atlantic and is almost completely in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Indian Ocean?
200
A large unerwater plain, the largest is in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is an Abyssal Plain?
200
The percentage of ocean coverage on the surface of the Earth
What is 71%?
200
Sediment on the ocean floor from continental rock or land that weathered away and eroded to the ocean
What is Terrigenous Minerals?
200
The Ocean Basin Floor (is?)
What is the bowl shaped area at the bottom of the ocean floor?
300
Liat the oceans from smallest to largest
What is the Artic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean?
300
Occurs at divergent plate boundaries (Mid-Oceanic Ridges)
what is seafloor spreading?
300
These resources are mined from the continetal shelf
Where are oil, natural gases, gravel and sand deposits mined?
300
Hydrogenous Minerals (Explain how they are made)
When crystillized minerals are formed from multiple chemical reactions and eventually settle onto the oceanfloor.
400
The area around continents that is submersed in water
What is the Continental Margins?
400
The Continental Shelf, Slope and Rise (are?)
What is the area of land unerwater on the coast, the steep area exiting the shelf and the area where the slope meets the ocean basin floor.
400
The first man to use a submersible
Who is William Beebe?
500
The three ways oceans are mapped
What is sonar satellite and submersibles?
500
Volcanoes dotting the ocean floor and volcanoes reaching the surface and becoming islands.
What are Seamounts and Guyots?
500
The deepest trench on Earth and it's deepest point
What is Mariana's Trench and The Challenger Deep?
500
The abrieviation of Sonar
What is Sound NAvigation And Radar?
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