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vocabulary
Water Cycle
Characteristics of the Ocean
Sea Worthy
Sea for Yourself
100
The process by which water moves above, across and through Eearth's crust and ecosystem
What is water cycle
100
The sun
What is the energy source for the water cycle?
100
A gradually sloping portion of the ocean floor that is made of continental crust.
What is continental shelf?
100
A factor that does not cause ocean currents.
What is time?
100
Large, delicate structures formed by the skeletons of small animals called corals.
What is coral reefs?
200
the process by which a liquid changes into a gas
What is evaporation
200
Groundwater
What is found in gaps and pores of rocks below Earth's surface?
200
The border between continental crust and oceanic crust where the ocean floor drops in depth.
What is continental slope?
200
Seafood, sea salt, fresh water, pearls, petroleum.
What are five products that can be made from or are found in the ocean?
200
Producers in a coral-reef food web
What is seaaweed and plankton?
300
The process by which water vapor changes into liquid water
What is condensation?
300
70%
What is the percent of the Earth's surface covered with water?
300
The vast floor of the deep ocean.
What is abyssal plain?
300
The area of ocean between the high-tide level and the low-tide level.
What is intertidal zone?
300
Ocean vents send out hot water that contains chemicals. Some bacteria can use these chemicals to produce and store energy.
What is sulfur and iron?
400
Solid or liquid water that falls from the air to Earth.
What is precipitation?
400
Transpiration
What is the absorbtion of water through plant root and release of gas by plants?
400
A steady streamlike movement of matter in one direction.
What is current?
400
The area of ocean over the continental shelf that is relatively shallow.
What is near-shore zone?
400
Largest animal alive on Earth today.
What is the blue whale?
500
Water located within the gaps and pores in rocks below Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
500
The amount of fresh water on Earth
What is 3%?
500
The deepest part of the oceans.
What is trenches?
500
The area of ocean over the continental slope and abyssal plain.
What is open-ocean zone?
500
A region in which a cool-water current most likely would originate.
What is the Arctic Ocean?