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Relates to the Sea
Relates to the Sea
Relates to the Sea
Relates to the Sea
Relates to the Sea
100
A level area of the sea that usually is very large.
What is an Abyssal Plain?
100
A steep incline unlike a Continental Shelf.
What is a Continental Slope?
100
The process(es) of water interchanging between three formes.
What is water cycle?
100
A certain amount of pollution in a certain area.
What is point-source pollution?
100
A gentle slope located along a continental slope and an abyssal plain.
What is Continental Rise?
200
A large body of water underground, and usually is pumped by wells.
What is an Aquifer?
200
To remove salt from the water in the ocean.
What is Desalination?
200
A mountain range located along a major ocean floor.
What is mid-ocean ridge?
200
An area near the top of the the ocean.
What is a pelagic environment?
200
The amount of rock in a certain gap or open space.
What is porosity?
300
Organisms or animals that live at the bottom of the sea.
What is Benthos?
300
A mass of material shaped into a fan that is usually located at the mouth of a stream.
What is a delta?
300
A long and usually deep valley when two or more tectonic plates separate.
What is a rift valley?
300
A certain amount of pollution that comes from many sites, rather than just one.
What is nonpoint-source pollution?
300
The amount of space between rock or rocks that can allow the flowing of liquid through the gap(s).
What is permeability?
400
Like an ecosystem for benthos, that also is very close to the bottom of the sea.
What is Benthic Environment?
400
A stream or mini river that runs alongside a river, due to the fact that said river was overflowing.
What is a floodplain?
400
A mountain now underwater, that was formed or is a/by volcano.
What is a seamount?
400
An amount of microscopic organisms that are in the water (a.k.a., the green guy from Spongebob).
What is plankton?
400
The topmost area of an aquifer or body of water underground.
What is a water table?
500
A sloping area of a continental slope.
What is a Continental Shelf?
500
An amount of measured salt that has been dissolved in a certain amount of water or liquid.
What is salinity?
500
All organisms or animals that are active in open water.
What is a nekton?
500
A lake or stream that flows in either the sea or a greater lake/stream.
What is tributary?
500
Basically a normal spring, and lets up water from a crack, and the water comes from an aquifer.
What is an artesian spring?