Ocean Floor
This type of tectonic boundary is the plate boundary in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is divergent?
Living In water, Unattached, Floating, Drifts with currents, are all used to classify these organisms.
What is plankton?
The area between the high tide and low tide marks is known by this name.
What is the intertidal zone?
This warm current flows along the eastern coast of North America and is part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.
What is the Gulf Stream?
This type of wave, generally created by wind, can be found in oceans, bays, rivers, lakes, and other types of water.
What are surface waves?
This is the deepest part of the ocean, located in the western Pacific Ocean near the Mariana Islands.
What is the Mariana Trench?
Plankton have two major groupings.
What are Phytoplankton and Zooplankton?
This is the area where freshwater from rivers meets and mixes with saltwater from the ocean, creating a highly productive coastal habitat.
What is an estuary?
This large-scale ocean current system, powered by wind and differences in water density, helps regulate global climate by transporting heat across the globe.
What are the thermohaline currents?
The energy of this phenomenon is proportional to its height multiplied by its width, meaning a larger one of these will have more energy.
What is a wave?
This gently sloping area of the ocean floor extends from the edge of a continent before dropping off steeply.
What is the continental shelf?
This animal, known for its ability to change color and texture, can squeeze through tiny openings to escape predators.
What is a squid?
This term describes the force exerted by ocean waves on coastal structures, sediment, and organisms, influencing erosion and shoreline changes.
What is wave stress?
This large system of rotating ocean currents, driven by the Earth's wind patterns and the Coriolis effect, can be found in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is a gyre?
This extremely powerful wave is created by an earthquake or tectonic plate shift and carries a significant amount of energy.
What is a tsunami?
This term refers to the flat, vast areas of the ocean floor covered in thick layers of sediment.
What are abyssal plains?
Despite its massive size, this gentle giant of the ocean feeds primarily on tiny plankton by filtering them through its baleen plates.
What is a blue whale?
This term refers to the cloudiness or haziness of water caused by suspended particles, such as sediment, plankton, and pollutants.
What is turbidity?
These currents are primarily driven by wind patterns and affect the top 100 meters of the ocean, playing a key role in distributing heat across the globe.
What are surface currents?
These waves are created by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun, and they affect the rising and falling of sea levels.
What are tidal waves?
This type of ocean floor feature forms where one tectonic plate is forced beneath another.
What is a trench?
This marine crustacean can produce one of the loudest sounds in the ocean by snapping its claw, creating a shockwave to stun its prey.
What is a pistol shrimp?
This occurs when different species or human activities compete for space, resources, and habitats along the coastline, such as in estuaries or coral reefs.
What is competition?
This type of current flows parallel to the shoreline, driven by waves hitting the coast at an angle and transporting sand and sediment along the beach.
What is a longshore current?
Despite their size and movement, these do not transfer water mass from point A to point B; they only transfer this.
What is energy?