Vocabulary
Ocean Ecosystems
Waves and Ocean Currents
Weather and Climate
Landforms
100
A community or group of living organisms that live in and interact with each other in a specific environment.
What is Ecosystem?
100
The ocean ecosystem that is home to the greatest variety of ocean life.
What is the Coral Reef?
100
Forces that shape the landforms along the coast.
What are Waves and Ocean Currents?
100
The state of the atmosphere at a certain place or time.
What is Weather?
100
The process when wind and storms move sediments across earth's surface.
What are Landforms?
200
These are steady flows of ocean water that are like rivers in the ocean that move water from place to place.
What is Ocean Currents?
200
Four animals that are found in the open ocean ecosystem.
What are Sharks, Jellyfish, Tuna, Sea Turtles, Whales, and Seals?
200
The pattern that ocean currents move in.
What are Circular Patterns?
200
The pattern of weather in an area over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
200
Winds from the ocean bring this air up to the atmosphere.
What is Moist, Rising Air?
300
The process when sand and other sediments are laid down in a new place.
What is Deposition?
300
This is something deep ocean animal are able to do but other sea life cannot do.
What is produce their own light?
300
An ocean current that brings up warm tropic water up the east coast of the North America.
What is the Gulf Strean?
300
Movement of water in the same directions that affects climate.
What are Ocean Currents?
300
It forms in the clouds when the moist air rises up to the atmosphere and will then cause precipitation.
What is Condensing Water Vapor?
400
The process when waves and currents pick up sediments and move them away.
What is Erosion?
400
This is one thing that happens when you go deeper in the ocean.
What is Increase Water Pressure?
400
This process is how sand forms on beaches.
What is deposition?
400
This occurs in the summer when cool breezes blow from the ocean towards the shore, making the climate along the shore cooler than inland.
What is Sea Breeze?
400
The air moving down the mountain after the precipitation falls from the clouds.
What is Dry, Descending Air?
500
The area on the dry side of the mountain range.
What is Rain Shadow?
500
Ocean Waters make up 70% of this.
What is Earth's Surface?
500
This process is responsible for wearing down rocks and soil.
What is Erosion?
500
This occurs in winter when the land cools faster than the ocean and the ocean water make the climate along the coast warmer than that of inland areas.
What is Land Breeze.
500
The process that takes place when rocks are broken up into smaller pieces.
What is Weathering?