Chapter 1 Review
Ocean Water
Ocean Movements
The Ocean Floor
Details
100
This is the air that surrounds Earth.
What is atmosphere?
100
The constant recycling of water from the earth's surface.
What is the water cycle?
100
This is an up and down movement of water.
What is a wave?
100
This is the place where land and ocean meet.
What is the shore zone?
100
This is the carrying away of sediments.
What is erosion?
200
This is the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
200
Water that falls to the earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
200
A very large group of waves caused by high winds.
What is a storm surge?
200
These are valleys that form on the ocean floor where two plates come together.
What is a trench?
200
This causes water waves.
What is the wind?
300
This forms when two air masses meet.
What is a front?
300
This happens when water vapor rises, cools, and changes from a gas to liquid water.
What is condensation?
300
This is the daily change in the local water level of the ocean.
What is the tide?
300
These are huge flat areas of the ocean floor.
What are abyssal plains?
300
This is the percent of water in ocean water.
What is 96 percent?
400
This is the warming caused when air traps some of the sun's energy.
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
This is the energy source that drives the water cycle.
What is the sun?
400
These are rivers that flow in the ocean.
What are currents?
400
These are steep-sided volcanic mountains.
What are seamounts?
400
This is the amount of Earth that is covered by water.
What is three-fourths?
500
This layer of atmosphere is farthest from the earth.
What is thermosphere?
500
This is the most common salt in the ocean.
What is sodium chloride (table salt)?
500
This causes tides.
What is gravity?
500
These are 3 features of the mid-ocean.
What are abyssal plains, trenches, and mid-ocean ridges.
500
This sea is shown in our book and said to be saltier than the ocean.
What is the Dead Sea?
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