Science

The total amount of dissolved

• Salinity

• Sonar

• Seamount

• Intestinal zone

a system that uses reflected sound waves to located and determine the distance to object under water.

• Salinity

• Seamount

• Sonar

• Mid ocean ridge

A steep- sided volcanic mountain rising from the deep-ocean floor

• Seamount

• Mid ocean ridge

• Trench

• Benthos

A deep steep-sided canyon in the ocean floor

• Continental lope

• Trench

• Continental shelf

• Benthos

A steep incline of the ocean floor leading down from the edge of the continental shelf

• Continental slope

• Continental shelf

• Nekton

• Plankton

A gently sloping,shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of a continent

• Abyssal plain

• Benthos

• Intestidal zone

• Continental shelf

A smooth, nearly flat region of the deep ocean floor

• Open ocean zone

• Abyssal plain

• Mid ocean ridge

• Food web

An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor in produced a divergent plate boundary under the ocean

• Mid ocean ridge

• Food web

• Neritic zone

• Plankton

An area between the highest high-tide line on land and the point on the continental shelf exposed by the lowest low-tide line

• Food web

• Benthos

• Intertidal zone

• Nekton

The area of the ocean that extends from the low-tide out to the edge of the continental shelf

• Plankton

• Neritic zone

• Open ocean zone

• Benthos