5.6 Motion of the Ocean
A disturbance seen on the surface of water usually caused by wind
What is a wave?
The area between the continental shelf and the continental rise; covered with sand, mud, and rocks
What is the continental slope?
The mass of a paperclip or a sheet of paper is about...
What is 1 gram?
Boiling point is...
What is 212 F?
Sedimentary rocks often contain these remains of organisms which tell us a lot about life and Earth in the past...
What are fossils?
These are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon.
What are tides?
A deep narrow valley where two plates collide; considered the deepest part of the ocean
What is a trench?
1000 grams equal...
What is 1 kilogram?
Measures liquid volume...
What is graduated cylinder?
Weather rock material, sand and soil can be moved by water and wins in a process called...
What is erosion?
This is a warm river of water in the Atlantic Ocean moving north along the East Coast of the United States.
What is the Gulf Stream?
This is the wide flat area that extends out from the bottom of the continental slope.
What is the abyssal plain?
10mm =...
What is 1 cm?
Used to measure mass...
What is a balance scale?
Plates that slide against each other called sliding boundaries-They cause...
What are earthquakes?
These cause surface ocean currents.
What are: the wind & the rotation of the Earth?
Long mountain chains that run along the ocean floor; formed from volcanic activity
What are oceanic ridges?
The volume of liquid in a graduated cylinder might be...
What is 50mL?
Lion belongs in this kingdom...
What is the animal kingdom?
When molten rock or magma cools below the Earth's surface this type of rock is formed...
What is Igneous rock?
This causes deep ocean currents.
What is: change in temperature and salinity?
These are large volcanoes rising out of the sea floor plains.
What are seamounts?
Mass is measured in these metric units:...
What are grams, kilograms?
Which is NOT an observation I could make while looking up at the sky? " The sky is blue". "A big, dark cloud moving in", "Soon it's going to rain"...
What is Soon it's going to rain?
The layers that contain nickel and iron are...
What are inner and outer core?