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Constructive & Destructive
Waves, Tides, Currents
Ocean and Land Landforms
Ocean Zone Features
Pollution
100
The term used to describe forces that build up land.
What is Constructive.
100
The repeated movement of water on the ocean shores.
What is wave
100
What part of the ocean do people play in during the summer?
What is Continental Shelf
100
This where a river flows into the ocean, and it features fresh and salt water.
What is an estuary
100
Factories and car exhaust can cause this type of pollution.
What is air pollution.
200
The term used to describe the forces that break down land.
What is Destructive
200
Surface currents travel from this region of earth to the North and South Poles.
What is the equator
200
Deep narrow valleys on the Ocean Floor, similar to canyons on land.
What is a Trench
200
This is a special narrow piece of land in the water that protects the mainland from damaging waves.
What is a barrier island.
200
These three R's describe how people can help to save the earth from becoming more polluted.
What is reduce, reuse, recycle.
300
This event is considered constructive when lava builds up afterward, but it is also destructive because it can destroy homes and wildlife.
What is a volcano.
300
The Highest and lowest parts of a wave.
What is Highest = Crest, Lowest = Tough
300
This is like a plain, but under the ocean.
What is the abyssal plain
300
This is the land in between a barrier island and the mainland.
What is an inlet
300
This is the wise use of natural resources.
What is conservation
400
This destructive force can be the cause of landslides and volcanos, if it is strong enough.
What is Landslides, Volcanic Eruptions, Erosion, Weathering, Floods & Earthquakes.
400
Tides are caused by this.
What is the pull of the Moon's gravity on Earth.
400
This is where the continent drops off sharply to the abyssal plains.
What is Continental Slope.
400
Because of this, inlet waters rise and fall during the day. Also, this brings in new ocean food to animals in the estuaries and inlets.
What is the tide.
400
to prevent erosion on beaches and to conserve the sand, people can do these TWO things to the beach dunes.
What is build fences and plant shrubs/bushes.
500
Sand dunes building up on the beach after wind erosion is an example of this.
What is Deposition.
500
Deep Water currents travel from this direction to the equator.
What is the North and South Poles
500
This is like an underwater volcano.
what is a Seamount
500
because of these, new sand is brought to the beach every day, and some old sand is taken away and brought elsewhere.
what are tides and/or currents.
500
An oil spill, and a sea otter with a plastic bag wrapped around his neck are both types of what pollution?
What is water pollution.