Oceans for man's use
The process of removing salt from ocean water to make it potable.
De-salination
True or False: According to oceanographers, the earth has only one ocean.
True
True or False: Young-earth geologists believe the earth began as a water planet and that God created land on the 3rd day as one large supercontinent.
True
A strip of land that separates the coastal region from the ocean.
The Shore
Submerged mountain ranges at the margins of diverging tectonic plates.
Mid-ocean ridges
The percentage of earth's water that is held in the oceans.
97%
A large section of ocean mostly surrounded by land or islands is called...
A sea.
Most scientists think that _________ __________ is causing an increase in sea level.
Global Warming
The ______ includes the shore out to the breakers (where the waves turn over).
Beach
The flat, deep sea floor.
Abyssal Plain
Name 3 different types of oceanographers.
Marine biologists, marine engineers, chemists, physicists, meteorologists.
True or False: We know more about the bottom of our oceans than we do about the surface of Mars or the Moon.
False
Local sea level is always changing and measured with ________ _________.
Tide gauges.
The submerged edges of the continental plates that slope out gently beyond the beach zone.
Continental Shelf
Submerged volcanoes and hills throughout the abyssal plain.
Seamounts
The percentage of the Earth's surface that is covered by oceans.
71%
Name the five major ocean basins.
Arctic, Indian, Atlantic, Pacific, Southern
The computed average height of high and low tides at a location.
Mean Sea Level
The steeper drop off just past the continental shelf.
Continental slope
Tiny animals that secrete an external, rock-like calcium support structure form underwater ridges known as _______ ________.
coral reefs
Which two types of oceanographers work together to study the motion of the ocean currents and find ways to benefit mankind from it (e.g., generate electricity from the current)
Marine Engineers and Physicists
Arrange the following in order from smallest to largest body of water: sea, strait, ocean, bay, gulf
Strait, Bay, Gulf, Sea, Ocean
Sea Level is affected by the following 4 things.
Tides, Density, Salinity, and Weather
Carved out by currents of water full of sediment during the Flood, ___________ __________ are carved into the continental slope.
Submarine Canyons
A ring of low coral islands and reefs surrounding a central lagoon.
Atoll