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Waves
Tides
Ocean Zones
Animals and Plants
Other
100
When winds blow across the waters surface, transmitting their energy to the water.
How do waves form?
100
2
How many low tides are there in an hour?
100
Intertidal Slope
What is the zone that begins at the highest high-tide line on land called?
100
Killer Whale
What is one example of a nekton?
100
The saltiness or dissolved salt of the body of water.
What does Salinity mean?
200
The Wavelength of a wave
What depends on the distance over which the wind blows?
200
2
How many high tides are there in an hour?
200
The Deep Zone
What zone is also called the underwater desert?
200
Plants and animals that love on the bottom of the ocean.
What are Benthos?
200
About 71 percent.
What percent of the world is covered in oceans?
300
The movement of sand along the beach.
What is a long shore drift?
300
The pull of the moon's gravity on the Earth's water.
What causes bulges?
300
It extends from the low-tide line out to the edge of the continental shelf.
What is the Neritic Zone?
300
Tiny plants and animals that live in the sea.
What are plankton?
300
It affects the weather.
Why do we in Colorado care about oceans?
400
Trough
The distance between waves is called...
400
The daily rise and fall of the Earth's water on its coast lines.
What are tides?
400
The Open Ocean Zone
Which zone lies beyond the edge of the continental slope?
400
Diatoms
An example of plankton is...
400
A sloping area that borders each continent.
What is a continental shelf?
500
Sonar
What uses sound waves to find things underwater?
500
The force of the moon and suns gravity pulls the tides.
What causes high and low tides?
500
Neritic Ocean Zone
What zone do most plants and animals live in?
500
Sea Mounts
What are underwater mountains called?