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Divisions of the Global Ocean
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The percent of Earth's surface covered by water.
What is 71%?
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Sodium chloride
What is salt?
100
What are the three basic components of Earth.
What is water, land and clouds?
100
Begins at the shoreline.
What is the continental shelf?
100
Technology that is based on the echo-ranging behavior of bats.
What is sonar?
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The largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
The amount of dissolved solids in a liquid.
What is salinity?
200
The continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean.
What is the water cycle?
200
Mountain chains formed by magma coming through rift zones.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
200

This forms when large waves first break and drop sand.

What is the longshore sandbar?

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The Arctic Ocean.
What is the smallest ocean?
300
These places have a higher salinity because the evaporation rate is higher.
What is hotter, drier climates.
300
Precipitation
What are droplets that fall back to the Earth's surface.
300
It is covered by mud and the remains of tiny marine organisms.
What is the abyssal plain?
300

Island arcs are most often associated with __________.

What is an oceanic trenches?

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The third largest ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean?
400
These slow-moving areas have a higher salinity.
What are gulfs, bays and seas.
400
Water vapor cools and turns to liquid water on dust particles.
What is condensation?
400
Huge cracks in the deep-ocean basin.
What are ocean trenches?
400
This vessel completed missions that searches for sunken ships, the recovery of a lost hydrogen bomb and explorations of the sea floor.
Who is Alvin?
500
The second largest ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
500
Water temperature __________ as depth decreases.
What is increases?
500
Liquid water is heated by the sun and rises as a gas into the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
500
If the ocean were a giant swimming pool, the ____________ would be the shallow end.
What is the continental margin?
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The ocean's ability to absorb and hold energy from the sunlight helps to regulate this.
What is temperatures in the atmosphere?