Ch 13. Vocab words

A vast body of salt water that separates the continents

• Ocean

• Sea

• Sea level

• Mean sea level

Tags

NGSS.5-ESS2-2

A large section of ocean that is mostly surrounded by land or islands.

• Shore

• Sea

• Beach

• Ocean

The level of the sea's surface at a particular place and time.

• Ocean

• Coral reef

• Sea level

• Mean sea level

The calculated average height of high and low tides in a particular location.

• Shore

• Mean sea level

• Sea level

• Beach

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The strip of land bounded by the lowest and highest tides that separates the coastal region from the ocean.

• Shore

• Beach

• Continental Shelf

• Submarine Canyon

The portion of the coast that is shaped by sea level and wave action.

• Shore

• Ocean

• Beach

• Slope

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The shallow, submerged edge of continents extending from the beach.

• Beach

• Continental Shelf

• Continental Slope

• Submarine Canyon

The steeper incline form the lip of the continental shelf into the deep ocean basin.

• Continental shelf

• Basin

• Continental slope

• Beach

An underwater erosional feature often found in a continental slope that seems to have been formed by turbidity currents.

• Submarine Canyon

• Oceanic temperture

• Meh

• Basin

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A thick deposit of loose sediments that creates a transition from the continental slope to the deep, relatively flat ocean floor.

• Abyssal Plain

• Seamount

• Mid-Ocean ridge

• Continental Rise