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Ocean Floor Topography
Waves
Tides
Ocean Water Composition
Currents
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An underwater mountain usually created by volcanic activity
What is a seamount?
100
The movement of energy through a body of water
What is a wave?
100
The force that causes tides
What is gravity?
100
Another word for what something is made of...
What is composition?
100
A large stream of water that flows through the oceans
What is a current?
200
The system which uses sound waves to map the ocean floor.
What is sonar?
200

The distance a wave travels

What is the distance?

200
How often do high tides occur
What is every 12 hours?
200

The force exerted by the weight of the water column above a certain point in the ocean, increasing with depth due to gravity.

What is pressure?

200
Driven mainly by winds
What are surface currents?
300
A gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of the continent.
What is the continental shelf?
300

The amount of time a wave travels

What is duration?

300

The movement of huge amounts of water between high and low tide is a source of..

What is (potential) energy?

300

the amount of salt in a liquid

What is salinity?

300
The warm current that flows from the tropics up to coast of Europe and causes much milder winters
What is the Gulf Stream?
400
A smooth, nearly flat region of the deep ocean floor.
What is the abyssal plain?
400

How far the wind blows over the water.

What is distance?

400
Occurs when the sun, moon and earth are all aligned, the combined gravity of the moon and sun makes the tide really high
What is a spring tide?
400
Decreases as you go deeper underwater
What is temperature?
400

Travels deep through multiple oceans where it can take a drop of water 1,000 years to travel through.

What is the global conveyor belt?

500
An undersea mountain chain, including the rift valley, where new ocean floor is being produced at a divergent plate boundary
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
500
The number of waves that pass a certain point in a given amount of time.
What is frequency?
500
Occurs when the sun, earth, and moon are at right angles, the competing gravity makes the tides barely noticeable
What is a neap tide?
500

the amount of mass in a given space

What is density?

500
Causes currents in the Northern Hemisphere to curve to the right
What is the Coriolis Effect?