water cycle
The process where the sun heats up liquid water and turns it into water vapor.
What is Evaporation
This shallow, gently sloping region of the ocean floor surrounds continents and is where most marine life lives.
What is the continental shelf?
This is the primary force responsible for creating surface waves on the ocean
This is the largest ocean on Earth, located between Asia, Australia, and the Americas.
(What is the Pacific Ocean?)
The lowest point of a wave.
(What is a trough?)
This happens when invisible water vapor cools down and turns back into liquid water droplets, forming clouds
What is condensation
This is the flat, vast, and nearly level area of the deep ocean floor
What is the abyssal plain?
The highest part of a wave is called the crest, and the lowest part is called this.
What is a trough?
This ocean lies between North America, Europe, and Africa.
(What is the Atlantic Ocean?)
The main factor that creates deep vertical ocean currents.
(What is water density / temperature and salinity differences?)
The sneaky process where plants "sweat" water vapor out of their leaves and into the air.
What is transpiration?
Similar to massive canyons on land, these are the deepest features on Earth.
What are ocean trenches?
As a wave approaches the shore and interacts with the ocean floor, friction slows the bottom, causing the top to plunge forward and create this.
This is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceans, mostly covered in ice.
(What is the Arctic Ocean?)
The daily rise and fall of Earth's ocean waters caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun.
(What are tides?)
When snow or ice skips the liquid phase entirely and turns directly into gas
This underwater mountain range stretches like a seam across the global ocean floor, formed by tectonic plates pulling apart.
True or False: As a deep-water wave approaches the shore, its wavelength increases
This ocean surrounds Antarctica and is known for its very cold, strong current.
(What is the Southern Ocean?)
A powerful, warm surface current in the Atlantic Ocean that strongly affects local climates.
(What is the Gulf Stream?)
The combined term scientists use for all water moving from the land surface up into the atmosphere.
This steep drop-off connects the edge of the continental shelf down to the deep ocean floor.
When the wind blows across open water, this force between air and water transfers energy to make waves.
This ocean is bounded by Africa, Asia, and Australia, and contains warm tropical waters.
(What is the Indian Ocean?)
he type of tide that occurs during new and full moons, creating the greatest difference between high and low water.
(What is a spring tide?)