Ocean names
The largest and deepest ocean.
What is the Pacific?
In the water cycle, when water falls from the sky in the form of snow, ice or rain, we call it this.
What is precipitation?
This is the process where one of Earth's plate moves under another of Earth's plates.
What is subduction?
The highest part of a wave.
What is a crest?
This is freshwater mixed with seawater.
What is brackish?
This ocean is near the North Pole.
What is the arctic?
The earth's oceans began to form this long ago.
What is 4.2 billion years ago?
The youngest rock in the ocean is located here.
What is along the mid-ocean ridge?
The lowest part of a wave.
What is a trench?
The emission of light by living organisms.
What is bioluminescence?
This is the world's third largest ocean.
What is the Indian?
True or false, the volume of water in the Earth's oceans has remained mostly constant since the first oceans formed.
True.
This is the deepest part of the ocean where an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.
What is a trench? or What is a subduction zone?
This is the horizontal distance from crest to crest or trough to trough.
What is wavelength?
These are the three ocean zones.
What are the surface zone, the middle zone and the deep zone?
This is the second largest ocean covering 20% of Earth's surface.
What is the Atlantic?
These are the two things that are thought to have caused the filling of Earth's oceans.
What are melted ice from asteroids and comets and rain formed when water vapor from volcanoes condensed in the atmosphere and fell as rain?
These are the large, flat areas of the seafloor that extend across the deepest parts of ocean basins.
What are abyssal plains?
This type of wave can be caused by an underwater earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption or when ices breaks off of a glacier.
What is a tsunami?
This is a large underwater mountain.
What is a seamount?
These are the five oceans.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern?
Describe the water cycle using the three main terms.
What is water evaporates from lakes and oceans, etc., condenses and forms water droplets and falls as precipitation.
These are two pieces of evidence that support the idea of seafloor spreading.
What are younger rocks at mid-ocean ridges and older rocks at trenches, matching bands of magnetic rock on either side of the mid-ocean ridges, and data suggesting that oceanic crust is sinking into the mantle at the trenches.
What is a breaker?
Seawater is salty for these two reasons.
What are water washing over rocks and dissolving minerals to form salts and salts forming from substances from underwater volcanoes?