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Ocean Vocabulary.
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What word refers to the saltiness of the ocean?
a) salinity
b) depth
c) pressure
d) current
What warm water ocean current travels across the Atlantic Ocean towards Europe?
a) East Australian Current
b) Gulf Stream Current
c) Kuroshio
d) Arctic Current
Which does NOT DECREASE as you dive deeper into the ocean?
a) Light
b) Temperature
c) Pressure
d) Number of living things
Which part of the ocean floor is created by underwater landslides?
a) Continental Slope
b) Continental Shelf
c) Abyssal Plain
d) Continental Rise
When two tectonic plates are coming TOGETHER, it is called a ____________ boundary.
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d) Seismic
Iceland and Hawaii are both found above a:
a) mid-ocean ridge
b) hot spot
c) trench
d) transform boundary
New crust is formed at a _________ boundary and old crust is destroyed at a __________ boundary.
a) transform / convergent
b) divergent / convergent
c) divergent / transform
d) convergent / divergent
What is the flat deep part of the ocean floor called?
a) Abyssal Plain
b) Continental Shelf
c) Mid-ocean ridge
d) Tranch
What is the high point on a wave called?
a) Tsunami
b) Trough
c) Crest
d) Wavelength
The gravitational pull of the _________ and __________ causes the tides to rise and fall twice a day.
a) Sun / Jupiter
b) Moon / Stars
c) Sun / Moon
d) Moon / Mars
What is the darkest zone of the ocean?
a) Twilight zone
b) Midnight zone
c) Sunlight zone
d) School zone
What do you call a living thing that gives off light?
a) phytoplankton
b) chemoluminescent
c) submersible
d) bioluminescent
A wave, produced by an earthquake on or near the ocean floor, which builds up to great heights as it moves into shallow water
a) Amplitude
b) Tsunami
c) Breaker
d) Surf
The wave measurement that tells how tall a wave is
a) Ampitude
b) Wavelength
c) Weve height
d) Trough
This word describes a mixture of salt and fresh water
a) Salinity
b) Phytoplankton
c) Brakish
d) Mixed water
The ______________ of the earth is the main cause of ocean currents.
a) Tilt
b) Spinning
c) Weight
d) Gravity
The low point on a wave
a) Crest
b) Trough
c) Wavelength
d) Amplitude
The amount of Earths surface covered by water
a) 71% which is about 3/4
b) 97% which is about all
c) 3% which is not much
d) 50% which is half
Tiny algae and animals that float in water and are carried by waves and currents
a) Plankton
b) Spongebob
c) Squidward
d) Patrick
The river-like movement of water in the ocean
a) Tsunamis
b) Waves
c) Tides
d) Currents
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