Ocean Topography
What is the name of the underwater feature that is flat and found at great depths?
What is an Abyssal Plain?
What are the five major oceans of the world?
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans?
What causes surface currents in the ocean?
What is wind?
What is a tide?
What is the periodic rise and fall of sea levels?
What primarily causes waves in the ocean?
What is wind?
Identify the sloping area between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain.
What is a Continental Slope?
What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans?
What is approximately 71%?
What is the primary factor that drives deep ocean currents?
What is density due to differences in temperature and salinity?
How many high tides occur in a typical day?
What are two high tides?
As wind speed increases, what happens to wave height?
What is increases?
What is the underwater mountain range called that runs through the ocean?
What is a Mid-Ocean Ridge?
Which hemisphere do surface currents move clockwise?
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
What are currents that move vertically in the ocean called?
What are Upwelling currents?
What phase of the moon occurs during a spring tide?
What are the full moon and new moon phases?
What is the term for the sideways movement of sand along the shore caused by waves?
What is Longshore Drift?
What term is used for a deep valley in the ocean floor?
What is a Trench?
When looking at a common map, which ocean sits on the edges of the map?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
What is the effect called that causes the movement of currents due to the Earth's rotation?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
What is a neap tide?
What is a tide with the least difference between high and low water?
What happens to waves as they approach the shore?
What is they increase in height and may break?
Name the flat-topped underwater mountain that has been eroded by the ocean.
What is a Guyot?
What is the term for the large system of ocean currents that circulate warmth around the globe?
What is the Global Conveyor Belt or Thermohaline Circulation?
What are the directions that warm and cold currents take?
What are warm currents move to the poles and cold currents move to the equator?
How often do spring tides occur?
What is approximately every two weeks?
What are Tsunamis, and how do they form?
What are large ocean waves caused by underwater disturbances such as earthquakes?