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Ocean Basins
Tides
Ocean Water vs. Fresh Water
Currents
100
The difference in height between high and low tide
What is the tidal range?
100
The largest and the deepest ocean basin
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
Daily cycle of rising and falling ocean water.
What is a tide?
100
97%
What percentage of the world's water is seawater?
100
Flowing streams of water that run through the oceans, moving masses of warm and cold water to different regions.
What are currents?
200
Results from a collapse of the continental slope.
What is a turbidity current?
200
Deep, wide depressions in Earth's surface that contain the oceans
What is an ocean basin?
200
The cause of tides
What is the gravitation pull of the moon and the sun?
200
Has the most freshwater reservoirs of any country in the world
What is Canada?
200
Winds and currents are deflected to the east in the northern hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis effect?
300
Large wave caused by sudden plate movement.
What is a tsunami?
300
Where the ocean meets a continent.
What is the continental margin?
300
Less extreme tides.
What are neap tides?
300
Dissolved solids in stream water
What is the source of salt in sea water?
300
Percentage of water is moved in deep water currents
What is 90%?
400
Large sections of rock making up the earth's surface.
What are tectonic plates?
400
The flat area at the continental margin.
What is the continental shelf?
400
Two
What is the number of high or low tides in a day?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Seawater is a solution of water and what?
What is sodium chloride?
400
Pushes currents into different directions
What is continent shape?
500
-1.9 degrees Celsius
What is the temperature that sea water freezes at.
500
Chain of mountains that has been pushing apart the continents of North America and Europe for the past 200 million years
What is Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
500
Occurs when the sun and moon are aligned
What is a spring tide?
500
The density of freshwater
What is 1000 kg/m3?
500
The sinking and movement of dense water beneath beneath surface water.
What is density current?
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