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Ocean Floor
Sea Floor Terrain
Waves
Temperature
Zones
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A major advance in the ocean floor mapping
What is Sonar?
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A undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced.
What is Mid-Ocean Ridge?
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The movement of energy through a body of water.
What is Wave?
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A total of dissolved salt in a water sample.
What is Salinity?
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An area that stretches from the highest high tide.
What is Intertidal Zone?
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A gently sloping shallow area of the ocean floor.
What is Continental Shelf?
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A deep steep sided canyon in the ocean floor.
What is Trench?
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the horizontal distance between the crest of one wave and the crest of the next wave.
What is wavelength?
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A large stream of moving water.
What is Current?
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extends from the low tide out to the edge of the contintal shelf.
What is Veritic Zone?
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The incline beyond the edge of the continental shelf.
What is Continental Slope?
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Mountains whose peak not break the surface of the ocean.
What is Seamount?
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The number of waves that pass a specific point in a given amount of time.
What is Frequency?
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Earth's rotation on the directions of winds and currents.
What is Coriolis Effect?
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Beyond the edge of the continental shelf.
What is Open Ocean Zone?
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A nearly flat region of the ocean floor.
What is Abyssal Plain?
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Which affect water to a depth of several hundred meter and driven mainly by wind.
What is Surface Currents?
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The vertical distance from the crest of a wave is the trough.
What is Wave Height?
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The pattern of temperature and precipitation.
What is Climate?
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Extends from the surface about 200 meters.
What is Surface Zone?
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A nearly flat region of the ocean floor.
What is Abyssal Plain?
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Caused by differences in the density of the ocean water.
What is Deep currents?
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A giant wave usually caused by earth quakes.
What is Tsunami?
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The movement of cold water upward from the deep ocean caused by wind.
What is Upwelling?
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Extends from the bottom of the surface zone to about 1 KM.
What is Transition Zone?