Oceanography 1 (SOL 5.6)

Oceans cover about ___ of the earth's surface.

• 97%

• 65%

• 70%

• 100%

When you go deeper into the ocean, what happens to the temperature?

• Nothing happens.

• It gets colder.

• It gets hotter.

• I didn't read.

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As you go deeper in the water, what happens to the water pressure?

• Nothing happens to the water pressure.

• Water pressure gets less or lower.

• Water pressure does not change.

• Water pressure gets more or higher.

As the depth of water increases, the amount of sunlight _____.

• stays the same.

• increases.

• decreases.

• gets in your eyes more.

Most of the ocean-life lives on the _________.

• shelf

• slope

• abyssal plain

• trench

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The continental _____ is where most people swim when they go to the beach.

• slope

• plain

• trench

• shelf

The wide, flat area beyond the continental slope is called the _______________.

• Marianas Trench

• abyssal plain

• wide, flat plain

• trench

Underwater mountains are called _____.

• plates

• mid-ocean ridges

• trenches

• mountains

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Really deep places are called _____ and many of them can be found in the Western Pacific Ocean.

• caverns

• valleys

• trenches

• abyssals

There is sea-life even in the deepest areas where animal's soft bodies are able to deal with the high ____.

• sunlight

• pressure

• temperature

• salinity