This structure projects from the land out into water.
What is a JETTY.
100
These are the rise and fall of sea level that is caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun on the Earth.
What is the TIDES
100
This consists of sand, gravel, or crushed seashells that have been brought to the body of water by rivers and streams, carried by waves, and deposited on the coast.
What is a BEACH
100
Underwater, on the sea floor, made up of magma and run all around the ocean
What is a MID-OCEAN RIDGE
100
Infested with waste ranging from floating plastic bags to chemical waste, our water bodies have turned into a pool of poison. Give one way to stop plastic pollution in our oceans.
Answers will vary... Ms. Carey will determine this one :)
200
This is a long, thin, sandy stretch of land, oriented parallel to the mainland coast that protects the coast from the full force of powerful storm waves.
What is a BARRIER ISLAND
200
This is energy that moves across the surface of the water.
What is a WAVE
200
This occurs when waves pick up and move sediment. Storm waves often do this to beaches and dunes.
What is ERODE them.
200
This is below sea level which is made up of rocks and sediment, and covered by little hills
What is an ABYSSAL PLAIN
200
“Did you know that approximately _______ billion pounds of trash per year enters the ocean?”
What is 1.4 billion pound of trash.
300
This is an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow, such as a small bay or arm, that often leads to an enclosed body of salt water, such as a sound, bay, lagoon, or marsh.
What is an INLET
300
Occurs daily, maybe twice in a day in coastal areas
What are TIDES
300
This occurs when the eroded sediment is deposited. This process creates features such as beaches, barrier islands, and spits.
What is DEPOSITION.
300
Underwater mountains below the sea surface, which are made up of rocks and sediment
What is a SEA MOUNT
300
There is an island of garbage twice the size of Texas inside the Pacific Ocean: the North Pacific Gyre off the coast of California is the largest oceanic garbage site in the entire world. There, the number of floating plastic pieces outnumbers total marine life ______ to _______ in the immediate vicinity.
What is plastic outnumbers marine life SIX to ONE.
400
This is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, or cobblestones.
What is a BEACH
400
These two types of tides happen yearly because of the gravitational pull of the moon.
What are SPRING and KING (or NEAP) tides.
400
These are stacks whose centers have been eroded through because the rock is softer or more fractured, resulting in a bridge-like shape.
What are SEA ARCHES.
400
A deep gap on the ocean floor, that separates two lands underwater.
What is a TRENCH
400
_______ is the fastest source of deterioration to the ocean, being far more harmful than trash and waste.
What is OIL
(mainly from Oil Spills and Oil drainage from land/run off)
500
This is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.
What is a FJORD
500
This is the very top of a wave.
What is the CREST
500
These are large, elongate masses of sand that parallel the coast and form islands. These are separated from the coast by protected lagoons.
What are BARRIER ISLANDS.
500
An expand of a continent underwater, which is flat and barren and made of sand, rocks and minerals
What is a CONTINENTAL SHELF
500
____________________thousand sea mammals are killed in the ocean by pollution each year, including sea birds, seals, sea lions, whales, and dolphins.