Ocean Floor
This floor feature surrounds each continent. It begins at sea level and gradually deepens.
Continental shelf
The type of water movement where surface water is disturbed by energy moving through the water. (usually caused by wind)
Waves
True or False: The deeper into the ocean you go, the more living organisms you will find.
False
Ocean is full of this type of water
Salt water
Steeply sloping part of the ocean floor where the ocean rapidly gets deeper
Continental Slope
River or stream-like flows of water on the surface and below the surface of the ocean. These are caused by temperature and salinity changes.
Currents
The zone of the ocean that is between sunlit and midnight zones. Receive very little light.
Twilight Zone
What happens to water temperature the further you go down in the ocean?
It gets colder
These are deep valleys in the ocean floor. They form at convergent plate boundaries.
Trenches
A giant wave caused by sudden movements on the ocean floor (underwater earthquakes, volcanoes, or landslides)
The zone of the ocean that is completely without light.
Midnight Zone
This feeling increases the deeper down you go into the ocean.
pressure
This floor feature is made of sand and sediments that curves down and connects the slope to the ocean floor.
Continental rise
The regular rise and fall of the oceans surface caused by gravitational pull of the moon and sun are called what?
Tides
The zone of the ocean that has the most life and is shallow.
Sunlight Zone
How salty something is can be referred to as its _____.
Salinity
The vast flat floor of the deep ocean is called what?
Abyssal Plain
The warm water current on the east coast of the United States in the Atlantic Ocean. Brings warm water fro the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and Europe.
The Gulf Stream
What is it called when an organism is able to create their own light?
Bioluminescence
What is the main producer in most ocean food chains?
Phytoplankton