Oceans: Vocab Review

What type of water is in the Ocean?

• regular water

• salt water

• fresh water

• spring water

A chain of underwater mountains

• island

• continental rise

• mid-ocean ridge

• trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The up-and-down movement of the surface of water, commonly caused by wind.

• waves

• currents

• seamounts

• earthquakes

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What begins at the edge of the continental shelf and quickly drops.

• continental rise   

• abyssal plain

• continental slope

• tide

The deepest part of the ocean.

• slope   

• seamount

• continental shelf

• trench

The daily rise and fall of the surface of the ocean, caused by gravitational pull between the Earth, moon, and sun.

• slope

• continental rise

• tides

• currents

A ___________ is a stream or river of water in the ocean.

•    wave       

• current

• tide

• trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The amount of salt in the water.

• salinity       

• current

• tides

• zooplankton

What is the flat area of the ocean floor?

• abyssal plain

• seamounts

•       continental slope

• mid-ocean ridge        

The ocean feature that lies just after the shoreline. 

• continental slope       

•   continental shelf

•   trench     

•           island