Ocean Floor
What is the deepest feature of the ocean called?
Oceanic Trench
What is the name of the ocean feature where most ocean life lives?
Continental shelf
What is the amount of salt in a body of water known as?
Salinity
The Chesapeake Bay Watershed is connect to what ocean?
What is the Atlantic Ocean
What is the flat, vast area of the ocean floor?
The abyssal plain
This is the flat, smooth area of the ocean floor.
What is the abyssal plain.
Underwater volcanoes
What is a seamount
Ocean currents on the surface of the water are caused by?
What is wind
Gradually sloping end of a continent that goes
under the ocean. (the beach!)
The continental shelf
A range of underwater mountains and valleys is an
What is oceanic ridge or Mid-ocean ridge
_______________ is the force of water pressing against whatever it surrounds.
What is water pressure
Which type of storm causes the most flooding in areas located near an ocean coastline?
What is Hurricane
What is the steep slope at the edge of the continental shelf?
The continental slope
The lower portion of the continental slope that has a pile of sediments
What is continental rise
_______________ is an organism's specific role and interactions within its marine environment.
What is niche
Who is the best 5th grade teacher?
Whom are Mr. Hudlin, and or Mrs. Patton and or Mrs. Lee Yang
These features of the ocean floor are very deep and similar to canyons on land.
What are trenches.
As the ocean water gets deeper, what happens to the light, pressure and temperature?
Light decreases, temperature decreases, and pressure increases
This is the type of technology that helps scientists explore the ocean floor. It is based on the echo-ranging behavior of bats.(Sound waves)
What is a sonar
What are two conditions found at the bottom of the ocean that make it difficult for most plants and animals to live there?
What is high pressure and cold temperature