Ocean locations
What Ocean is right of north America?
What is the Atlantic ocean?
Indicates where subduction of plates takes place.
Located at convergent boundaries
What are deep sea trenches?
How much of the Earth is covered in water?
What is 71%?
move water horizontally – parallel to Earth’s surface
What are surface currents?
A tide with the greatest difference between high and low tide that occurs when the sun and moon are aligned with Earth at the new moon and full moon.
What is a spring tide?
What Ocean Is North of Europe?
what is the arctic ocean?
Underwater mountains whose peaks do not break the surface of the ocean water.
What are seamounts?
How much of the Earth is covered in land?
What is 29%?
The BLANK is a surface current that
moves warm water from the tropics to the cooler regions around Europe.
what is the gulf stream?
A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor.
What is a tsunami?
What Ocean is North of Antarctica?
What is the southern ocean?
A smooth nearly flat region of the deep ocean floor.
What is a Abyssal Plain?
Liquid changes to a gas at the surface of the liquid and becomes water vapor in the atmosphere. Water on Earth’s surface evaporates because energy from the sun breaks the bonds between water molecules.
What is Evaporation?
TRUE or FALSE: More dense seawater sinks beneath less dense seawater.
What is Truth?
The amount of dissolved salts in a water sample.
What is Salinity?
What Ocean is right of Asia?
What is The North Pacific ocean
A gentle sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of a continent.
What is a continental shelf?
The evaporation of water from the leaves of plants is called transpiration. Plants absorb most of the water they need from the ground. When plants have a good supply of water or air temperatures rise, they transpire and release even more water vapor into the atmosphere.
What is Transpiration?
Surface winds and surface currents are affected
by the rotation of the Earth- it is called the...
What is the Coriolis effect?
A rush of water that flows rapidly back to sea through a narrow opening in a sandbar.
What is a rip current?
What Ocean is right of africa?
What is the Indian ocean?
A long chain of underwater mountains with a central rift valley that is located along a divergent boundary on the ocean floor
Creates oceanic crust by sea-floor spreading.
This is a type of Rift Valley
What is the mid-ocean ridge system?
When precipitation reaches Earth’s surface, the water flows downhill as a result of gravity. Water from precipitation that flows over Earth’s surface.
What is surface runoff?
Currents can have a BLANK effect on an area’s climate or a BLANK effect on an area’s climate.
What is cooling and warming?
The movement of cold water upward from the deep ocean that is caused by wind.
What is Upwelling?