The ocean floor drops off in a steep decline from the shelf to the deep ocean floor. The name of this steep decline is.
What is the continental slope?
100
ROY-G-BIV stands for this.
What is Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet?
100
This is a map that shows how humans have divided the surface of the earth into countries, states, and territorial divisions.
What is a political map?
100
Only 1 percent of sunlight penetrates this layer known as dysphotic zone. Dysphotic means __________.
What is bad light.
100
This is a type of map that show topographic features underneath the water.
What is bathymetric map?
200
A continuous mountain range that winds around the earth.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
200
The light we can see is referred to as the visible _______.
What is spectrum?
200
It may use colors and shading to show ________, or how rugged the land surface is. It is a type of physical map.
What is relief map?
200
The euphotic zone is where most organisms conduct this process because it contains the most light. It is also in the epipelagic zone or sunlight zone.
What is photosynthesis?
200
Hachure marks pointing inwards in a circle represent this landform.
It's kind of saddening.
What is a depression?
300
The deepest one of these is 11,000 meters below sea level. They occur where two tectonic plates come together.
What is a trench?
300
Sunlight is made up of all colors. Because of this we call it _________ light. Or the color that is produced when all the colors are mixed or present.
What is white light?
300
A nautical chart may show depth in this form of measurement that represents 6 feet.
Hint: It is where Mark Twain got his pen name.
What is a fathom?
300
The ocean abyssal plain is found in this zone
What is the abyssopelagic?
300
When contour lines are close together this indicates that the land has a ____________ slope.
What is steep?
400
The ocean floor, a smooth nearly flat area. In some cases deep, steep sided canyons cut into it, or oppositely large underwater volcanoes may stuck up and out from this area. It is found deep in the ocean.
What is abyssal plain?
400
Outside of the visible part of the light we can see towards the side of violet is this invisible form of light that is responsible for warmth and tanning or burning your skin.
What is ultra-violet light?
400
A map that shows changes in elevation and the true shape of the land by means of lines.
What is a contour map?
400
Trenches are found in the ___________ zone.
What is hadal or hadalpelagic
400
The difference in elevation between two neighboring contour lines is called this.
What is the contour interval?
500
This is like a seamount, but different in that has flat top. It is also known as a tablemount, is an isolated underwater volcanic mountain, with a flat top over 200 metres (660 feet) below the surface of the sea.
What is guyot?
500
The first color to disappear when delving deep down into the ocean is this color. It is at the opposite end of visible light "rainbow" of violet.
What is red?
500
Topographic, relief and contour maps all show characteristics of the surface of the Earth. These are classified as this type of map. Some of these types show Earth as seen from space. All of these are this type of map?
What is a physical map?
500
This person is credited with finding the Titanic?
Who is Robert Ballard?
500
Every 5th line in a contour map is labeled with a height above sea level. This is called the...