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Cycling around
Ups and Downs
Measuring up
"Wave" Hello
"Current" Events
100
Continuous movement of Earth's water from the ocean to the atmosphere, to the land and back to the ocean
What is the water cycle?
100
The shape of the land determined by elevation, relief, and landforms.
What is topography?
100
What is the measure of the amount of dissolved salts in a given amount of liquid?
What is salinity?
100
The distance between corresponding parts of a wave (crest to crest or trough to trough)
What is Wavelength?
100
A large stream of moving water that flows through the ocean
What is a current?
200
Surface water that seeps underground
What is groundwater?
200
A volcano that does NOT rise above sea level
What is a seamount?
200
The use of sound pulses from a ship down into the ocean to measure the ocean's depth
What is sonar?
200
The distance from the crest to the trough
What is Wave Height?
200
The upward movement of cold water from the ocean depths; caused when winds move the warm surface water and cold water rises to replace it
What is upwelling?
300
Water from the Earth's surface changes into water vapor
What is Evaporation?
300
Flat, almost level, area of ocean basin
What is abyssal plain?
300
A research vessel used to travel to the deep ocean
What is Alvin?
300
a giant wave caused by an earthquake on the ocean floor
What is a tsunami?
300
The curving of the paths of winds and currents as they flow between the poles and the equator; causes currents to curve
What is the Coriolis Effect?
400
A form of matter that does not keep its shape but always takes up the same amount of space.
What is water? (liquid)
400
A deep canyon in the ocean floor
What is a deep ocean trench?
400
The maximum distance a water particle moves above or below the surface level of calm water
What is amplitude?
400
The daily rise and fall of Earth's waters on its coastlines
What are tides?
400
Currents that are driven primarily by wind
What is surface currents?
500
Precipitation that flows over land into streams, rivers, and oceans
What is runoff?
500
A flat topped seamount caused when waves erode the part of a volcano above sea level
What is a guyot?
500
The number of waves that pass a specific point in a given amount of time
What is frequency?
500
These tides produce the least range between high and low tide and occur when the sun and moon are at right angles to earth.
What is Neap tides?
500
Slow, cold currents at the bottom of the ocean; caused by differences in density.
What is deep currents?