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Tides
Animals and Plants
Floor
Currents and Other
Waves
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2 low tides.
How many low tides are there in 24 hours?
100
Benthos, Nekton and Plankton.
What are the three categories of animals in the ocean?
100
Is the sea floor flat?
No
100
71 percent of the world
What percent of the ocean is covered in ocean?
100
It is the bottom of a wave or the lowest part of a wave.
What is a trough?
200
2 high tides.
How many high tides in 24 hour period(day)?
200
Sort the following organisms in the three categories (benthos, nekton and plankton). Diatoms Dolphins Sharks Clams Kelp Starfish Sea Turtles Whales
Benthos-Clams, Starfish and Kelp Nekton-Sharks, Whales, Sea turtles and Dolphins Plankton-Diatoms and Kelp
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A mountain that breaks to the surface of the ocean.
What is a Volcanic Island?
200
Gulf Stream
What is the main current that affects Florida's weather?
200
The top of the wave.
What is a crest?
300
The pull of the moon's gravity on the Earth's water.
What causes bulges?
300
Sea creatures that live on the bottom of the ocean. Starfish Clams Kelp
What is Benthos and give an example?
300
Seamounts are covered by ocean and Volcanic Island have broken through the surface.
What is the difference between Seamounts and Volcanic Islands?
300
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Artic Ocean.
What are the major subdivisions of the world's ocean?
300
The distance between wave crests.
What is a wave length
400
The daily rise and fall of the Earth's water on its coast lines.
What are tides?
400
Free swimmers
What is Nekton?
400
Mariana Trench
What is the deepest trench in the world of oceans?
400
The amount of salt in a liquid
What is salinity?
400
The distance between the crest and the trough.
What is a wave height/amplitude?
500
The force from the moon and sun pulls the tides one way and another.
What causes high and low tides?
500
Tiny plants and animals that live in the ocean. They are Zooplankton and Phytoplankton. Diatoms
What is Plankton and give an example?
500
What causes ocean floor spreading?
Mid-Ocean Ridges
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The ocean's water is evaporated making clouds. The clouds move over Colorado giving us precipitation(rain, snow, hail).
Why do people in Colorado care about oceans?
500
A large wave produced by an underwater earthquake.
What is a Tsunami?