Overview
Ocean Basins
Seawater
Ocean Environments
Vocabulary
100

The percentage of earth that is covered by water

71%

100

This ocean is considered the largest

Pacific Ocean

100

The amount of mineral salt found per 1000g of seawater

35g

100

These are sometimes called the "rainforests of the sea"

Coral Reefs

100

This is water that is said to be drinkable

Potable

200

This is what is considered to be happening to current mean sea levels

They are steadily rising

200

The portion of land that slopes downward after the continental shelf

Continental Rise

200

The most abundant type of salt found in the ocean

Sodium Chloride

200

Marine Snow would be most important to organisms living in this zone

Abyssal Zone

200

A single submerged mountain or hill rising from the sea

Seamount

300

The way sound travels in the ocean compared to land

Faster in water than in the air

300

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Sections of the ocean that are more or less surrounded by land

Seas

300

The gas that is most abundant in lighted zones of the ocean

Oxygen

300

A coral reef separated from the mainland by a lagoon

Barrier Reef

300
This is the portion of a shoreline that extends furthest out into the ocean

The Beach

400

The shallow, submerged edges of a continent

Continental Shelves

400

Submerged mountain ranges on the ocean floor 

Mid-Ocean Ridges

400

A freshwater source that has a partial amount of salinity to it

Brackish Water

400

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The ocean environment in which organisms must cope with the greatest variability

The Intertidal Zone

400

An organism that only travels along the bottom of the ocean

Benthic

500

The basic building block of living organisms

Carbon

500

These sea basin features are believed to be formed by runoff from the continents during the flood by young earth creationists

Submarine canyons

500

The two main cycles necessary for life in the ocean

Carbon-Cycle and Nitrogen-Cycle

500

The four main zones of the ocean that we know of (or have been able to explore to the most extent)

Intertidal Zone, littoral/photic zone, aphotic zone, abyssal zone

500

This portion of the shoreline is what forms when large waves break and drop sand higher than sea level

Longshore Sandbar