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Vocabulary
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100
Name the Earth's five oceans.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Artic Oceans?
100
Name two things that affect the tides.
What are the sun and moon?
100
Why can't plants grow in the deep ocean?
What is no light reaches there so photosynthesis cannot occur?
100
The point at which water reaches its highest regular place on shore.
What is high tide?
100
A group of microscopic organisms of different types drifting in the ocean.
What is plankton?
200
What are 3 problems of exploring the deep ocean that can be solved by submersibles?
What are, temperature, water pressure, and darkness?
200
Tell how a particle of water moves as engery passes through in a wave.
What is the particle moves in a circle and returns to it's orginal position?
200
When is the intertidal zone under water?
What is during high tide?
200
An abnormally high water level during a hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
200
The widest, deepest water ecosystems.
What is the open ocean?
300
Name 3 features you might find on the ocean floor.
What are trench, volcanic mountain, and abyssal plain?
300
Why would people build a jetty?
What is to prevent the current from moving sand?
300
Name 3 organisms that live in a near-shore zone.
What are birds, jellyfish, sharks, dolphins, whales, plants, plankton?
300
Coral polyps live together here.
What is in colonies?
300
The point at which water reaches its lowest regular place on the shore.
What is low tide?
400
What forms when an island sinks and the coral is left behind?
What is an atoll?
400
When does the most dramatic difference in tide levels occur?
What is When the Earth, sun, and moon are in a straight line?
400
Where would you find hydrothermal vents?
What is in the open ocean?
400
A deep valley in the ocean floor.
What is an oceanic trench?
400
A range of underwater mountains and valleys.
What is an oceanic ridge?
500
What deep ocean problems CAN'T an diver's scuba gear solve?
What is the suit can't protect a diver from high pressure?
500
What causes an El Nino?
What is an unusually warm South Pacific current?
500
What do bacteria near hydrothermal vents eat, in order to start the food chain for larger organisms?
What is chemicals in the heated water?
500
A steep area where the ocean rapidly gets deeper.
What is a continental slope?
500
The underwater boarder of each continent.
What is the continental shelf?
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