Ch. 10 (Oceans)

What is a gyre?

• The place an organism lives

• A cycle of ocean currents

• The bottom of the ocean

• A beach

_________ is the amount of salt dissolved in water

• Echo sounding

• Sand

• Salinity

• California Current

Earth's surface underneath the ocean water is the ...

• habitat

• echo sounding

• ocean current

• ocean floor

The place an organism lives is called a...

• habitat

• gyre

• bathymetric map

• sea level

What causes a tsunami?

• Not enough rain

• Landslides, icebergs falling off glaciers, volcanic explosions and undersea earthquakes

• Hot temperatures

• Big waves

Echo sounding is ...

• determining the depth of water using sound waves

• a place where an organism lives

• a map of the bottom of the ocean

• Earth's surface underneath the water

A(n) _______ is like a river in the ocean

• ocean current

• sand

• California Current

• marine

The _________ brings cool water along the California Coast

• Davidson Current

• California Current

Swift currents that flow away from the beach are ...

• ocean currents

• longshore drift

• shoreline

• rip currents

The area of land between the lowest water level at low tide and the highest area of land that is affected by storm waves is the...

• bathymetric map

• waves

• shore

• rip current