Vocabulary 15 Ocean Terms

  The flat, almost level area of the deep ocean basin

• sea mount

• abyssal plain

• continental shelf

• midocean ridge

The deepest place in the Earth's crust where one tectonic plate subducts or moves under another plate 

• midocean ridge

• ocean trench

• sea mount

• rift valley

A horizontal stream-like movement of ocean water that is caused by wind that occurs at or near the ocean’s surface 

• surface current

• upwelling

• deep current

• ocean wave

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

 The curving of the path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to earth’s rotation 

• upwelling

• continental deflection

• ocean trough

• Coriolis Effect

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A stream-like movement of ocean water far below the surface caused by density differences

• deep current

• surface current

• Coriolis Effect

• upwelling

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The movement of deep cold and nutrient-rich water to the surface

• deep current

• upwelling

• Coriolis Effect

• surface current

Any movement of matter that results from differences in density may be vertical circular or cyclical

• Coriolis Effect

• continental deflection

• upwelling

• convection current

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

a disturbance on the ocean that transmits energy and takes the shape of a swell or a ridge

• ocean crest

• ocean wave

• ocean current

• ocean trough

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

the highest point of a wave

• ocean current

• ocean trough

• ocean wave

• ocean crest

the lowest point of a wave

• ocean trough

• ocean current

• ocean crest

• ocean wave