Ocean Floor Conditions, Features, and Waves

What symbolizes a seamount?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What symbolizes the abyssal plain?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What symbolizes the continental shelf?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What symbolizes a trench?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following characteristics alters the density of ocean water?

• temperature and wave speed

• salinity and temperature

• wave speed and wave size

• wave size and salinity

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which of the following would cause surface ocean water to have a higher salt content?

• the flowing of a river into the ocean

• the melting of sea ice

• high rates of evaporation and low rates of precipitation

• low rates of evaporation and high rates of precipitation

From which ocean floor destination would a sonar signal take the longest amount of time to return to the receiver?

• a trench

• an abyssal plain

• a continental shelf

• a deep-ocean basin

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What will happen to a drop of surface seawater as a wave passes?

• It will move rapidly forward.

• It will be forced down.

• It will not move at all

• It will rise and fall.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Which ocean temperature zone is the warmest?

• littoral zone

• thermocline

• deep zone

• surface zone

A sample of sea water was shown to have a salinity of 35.0 Practical Salinity Units. Based on the graph, at what depth was the sample most likely taken?

• The sample was taken about 33 meters below sea level

• The sample was taken about 50 meters below sea level.

• The sample was taken about 200 meters below sea level.

• The sample was taken about 800 meters below sea level.