Quiz 17 B
Gently sloped region that stretches away from the continental slope
What is the continental rise
A plastic tube on a weighted line that is lowered into the ocean to collect water samples from the depths
What is the Nikin bottle
A single-use thermometer that sinks through the water, transmitting the temperatures at different levels back to a surface ship
What is expendable bathythermograph
Type of current made of seawater mixed with mud or silt and can erode the ocean floor to produce submarine canyon
What is turbidity current
A huge, muddy valley that cuts into the deep ocean floor
What is a trench
Mariana Trench is the deepest point in the sea that has another name
What is the Challenger Deep
Framework that contains many water-sample tubes to collect samples from different depths
What is a rosette
Device that is the primary method of determining the physical properties of water
What is conductivity, temperature, and depth sensor
This oceanographic tool, highly maneuverable robot, linked to a support ship by cables.
What is is a ROV
Metric unit measurement used by oceanographers to measure hydrostatic pressure
What is kilpascals
A pool of shallow, salty water that is often in the center of a circular coral-reef island
What is a lagoon
Self-contained breathing device that allows for deep dives
What is scuba
Modern device that drifts with deep ocean currents and regularly reports its location and water conditions
What is a profiling float
Substance that makes up most of the salt in the oceans
What is sodium chloride (NaC1)
Dangerous currents formed when large amounts of water from waves surge out to sea through a break in a sandbar
What are rip currents
Floating observation station that automatically takes measurements and transmits the date to oceanographers
What is a oceanographic buoy
Device with an open tube that is dropped to the sea floor, allowing its weight to puncture the sediment to collect samples
What is a gravity corer
The mass of foaming water formed when waves wash up onto a beach
What is surf
Any area of the sea that exceeds 6000 m in depth
What is the hadal zone
An upward-flowing current that occurs when a land breeze pushes surface water away from the coast
What is upwelling
Type of weighted bottle formerly used by oceanographer to measure ocean currents
What is a drift bottle
Device that determines the size distance, and direction of any solid object in the water by analyzing the echoes
What is sonar
The material carried by a stream
What is a load
Large waves created by underwater disturbances
What is tsunamis
A device has an open tube that is dropped to the sea floor rto allow its weight to puncture sediment and bring up sediment samples
What is gravity corer