Oceans Pre-Quiz

the daily rise and fall of Earth's waters on its shores

• tide

• waves

• shore

• groin

a tide that produces the greatest range between high and low tide

• winter tide

• fall tide

• spring tide

• summer tide

a tide with the least difference between low tide and high tide

• nap tide

• nope tide

• neap tide

• nube tide

a large stream of moving water that flows through the ocean

• wave

• current

• tide

• ocean

the effect of the Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents

• Rip Current

• Tide Chart

• Cookie Effect

• Coriolis Effect

the upward movement of cold water from the ocean floor bringing up nutrients

• downwelling

• skeet skeet

• upwelling

• tide

the total amount of dissolved salt in a water sample

• Base

• Acid

• Salinity

• Oceanography

a gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of a continent

• Country Shelf

• Continental Shelf

• Cookie Shelf

• Collapsing Shelf

a steep incline leading down from the edge of the continental shelf

• Continental Shelf

• Continental Breakfast

• Continental Slope

• Continental Drift

a smooth, nearly flat region of the deep ocean floor

• Ocean Floor

• Currents

• Tide Plain

• Abyssal Plain