Oceans

What is a Tsunami?

• A current of water caused by the moon

• A huge wave caused by wind

• A series of waves caused by an earthquake

• A current caused by heat

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How can climate change affect the oceans?

• Melt polar ice making the oceans change temperature

• Make ocean levels rise and flood some land

• Make some hurricanes and typhoons longer, more destructive

• All of the above

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Would you expect California ocean to be warmer or cooler than the Atlantic ocean on the East Coast?

• The same because they are on the same latitude

• Cooler because the current comes from Arctic

• Warmer because the current comes from Equator

• Much colder

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the edge of a continent that lies under the ocean. It ends at the shelf break.

• deep ocean trench

• mid ocean ridge

• continental shelf

• continental slope

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past the shelf break, this part of the continental crust descends downward to the deep ocean floor

• deep ocean trench

• mid ocean ridge

• continental shelf

• continental slope

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the study of Earth’s oceans

• Oceanography

• Microbiology

• Chemistry

• Oceanology

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the part of the ocean where the continental shelf gradually slopes seaward; sunlight can penetrate to the bottom of this zone

• oceanography

• intertidal zone

• oceanic zone

• neritic zone

part of the shore that is below water at high tide and above water at low tide.

• salinity

• intertidal zone

• neritic zone

• continental shelf

the amount of dissolved salt in a body of water

(average seawater is 3.5% salt or 35,000 ppm, tap water has <100 ppm)

• continental shelf

• salinity

• abyssal plain

• continental slope

the smooth, nearly flat region of the deep ocean floor

• neritic zone

• photic zone

• abyssal plain

• continental slope