Vocbulary
Oceans
Oceanography
Atmosphere
other ocean facts
100
Define Abyssal
What is a term used for animals, water, or land in the deepest part of the ocean, 1300 feet or deeper
100
The Earth's Oceans contain ______% of all the surface water on the planet.
What is 97
100
The exploration and scientific study of phenomena associated with the world's seas, oceans, and their surrounding environment
What is Oceanography
100
Along with the Atmosphere, Oceans help regulate
What is the Climate and Weather
100
The famous trench found near the island of Guam
What is the Mariana Trench
200
A deep-diving submersible designed like a blimp. Its name means "deep ship"
What is Bathyscaph
200
The largest Ocean
What is the Pacific Ocean
200
The study of the chemical composition of seawater and material in suspension, the nature of dissolved gasses and solids, chemical cycle, like the carbon cycle, the acidity of seawater in relationship to the ocean bottom and the atmosphere.
What is Chemical Oceanography
200
Name 2 things that that each provide half our atmosphere's oxygen?
What are plants and tiny ocean organisms
200
The submerged land adjacent to the continent
What is the Continental Shelf
300
The study that determines weather patterns
What is meteorology
300
The Smallest Ocean
What is the Artic Ocean
300
The application of the scientific method to the ocean’s animal and plant life
What is Marine Biology
300
Indirectly the Oceans provide __________ acting as a source of rain for crops
What is precipitation
300
Begins are the edge of the continental shelf and reaches into the ocean's greatest depth
What is the continental slope
400
Free-floating ocean life that releases oxygen
photosynthetic organisms
400
The Ocean provides half of the world's ______.
What is Oxygen
400
The study of the physical features of the ocean’s water, such as temperature, density, waves, currents, tides, sea ice, air-sea interaction, the ability to transmit sound and light
What is Physical Oceanography
400
Scientist know more about the ____ than about the ocean bottom
What is the moon
400
What Ocean is this
What is the Atlantic Ocean
500
A ting of volcanic activity that circles the Pacific Ocean
What is the Ring of Fire
500
_____________ of the American population live within fifty miles of a coast.
What is three-quarters
500
The study of nature and physics of the ocean's solid structure, including all aspects of the continental slopes and shelves and the ocean basins
What is Marine Geology and Physics
500
Name at least 4 things that influence the shaping of the shorelines of the world
What are Waves, currents, tides, actions of oysters, mussels, other sea creatures, and types of vegetations
500
This continent is
What is Europe