Hydrology Vocabulary (Saltwater)

The shape of land determined by changing elevations and landforms

• trench

• topography

• climate

• salinity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor extending outward from the edge of a continent

• Continental Shelf

• Continental Slope

• Abyssal Plain

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

A steep incline of the ocean floor leading down from the edge of the continental shelf

• Deep-Ocean Trench

• Continental Shelf

• Continental Slope

• Seamount

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A smooth, nearly flat region of the deep ocean floor

• Topography

• ocean current

• trench

• Abyssal plain

A deep, steep-sided canyon on the ocean floor

• trench

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• El Nino

• Climate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced (divergent)

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Deep Ocean Trench

• Wave length

• Abyssal Plain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A deep valley along the ocean floor where oceanic crust sinks down toward the mantle (subduction)(convergent)

• Deep Ocean Trench

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Ocean Current

• Tide

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Underwater mountains that have not broken the surface of the ocean water

• Rip Current

• Trench

• Seamount

• Ocean Current

A rush of water that flows rapidly back to sea through a narrow opening in a sandbar

• Climate

• ocean current

• rip current

• tide

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A large stream of water that flows through the oceans

• ocean current

• El nino

• climate

• wave length

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6