WorksheetsOcean Environment Project
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Is a measure of the amount of dissolved salt contained in water.
a)
Continental Shelf
b)
Density
c)
Salinity
2.
Is a measure of the amount of matter packed into a given volume.
a)
Sonar
b)
Salinity
c)
Density
3.
The flat or gently sloping land that lies submerged around the edges of a continent.
a)
Continental Shelf
b)
Sonar
c)
Density
4.
A system that uses sound wave to measure distances and locate objects.
a)
Continental Shelf
b)
Sonar
c)
Salinity
5.
A mass of moving water.
a)
Continental Shelf
b)
Sonar
c)
Ocean Current
6.
The movement of water from the surface to greater depths.
a)
Downwelling
b)
Salinity
c)
Upwelling
7.
The movement of the water up to the surface.
a)
El Nino
b)
Downwelling
c)
Upwelling
8.
Changes in air and water movementsthat can cause a global weather event.
a)
Upwelling
b)
El Nino
c)
Density
9.
Moves water parallel to the shore.
a)
Continental Shelf
b)
Rip Currents
c)
Longshore Current
10.
Are narrow streams of water that break through sandbars and drain rapidly back to sea.
a)
Density
b)
Rip Currents
c)
Upwelling
11.
This periodic rising and falling of the water level of the ocean.
a)
Tide
b)
Rip Current
c)
Downwelling
12.
Is the difference in height between a high tide and the next low tide.
a)
Neap Tide
b)
Tide
c)
Tidal Range
13.
The result is an extra high tidal bulge and and extra low tidal dip.
a)
Spring Tide
b)
Neap Tide
c)
Tide
14.
The result is a smaller tidal bulge and tidal dip.
a)
Rip Current
b)
Density
c)
Neap Tide
15.
An environment that has all the necessary requirements for an organism to live.
a)
Estuaries
b)
Intertidal Zone
c)
Habitat
16.
The habitat at the edge of the ocean
a)
Intertidal Zone
b)
Water
c)
Lake
17.
which include bays, inlets, and harbors.
a)
wetlands
b)
estuaries
c)
habittat
d)
ocean
18.
Wet, swampy areas that are often flooded with water
a)
wetlands
b)
estuaries
c)
coral reefs
19.
are built-up limestone deposit formed by large colonies of ant-sized organisms.
a)
wetlands
b)
coral reefs
c)
habitat
20.
large communities of this seaweed form...
a)
coral reefs
b)
habitat
c)
kelp forests
21.
Microscopic floating organisms
a)
phytoplankton
b)
kelp forest
c)
coral reefs
22.
These animals live near openings in the Earth's crust
a)
hydrothermal vents
b)
coral reefs
c)
habitat
23.
The main thing that causes the decrease in fish population
a)
hydrothermal
b)
habitat
c)
overfishing
24.
The portion of animals that are caught in a net and then thrown away
a)
habitat
b)
by-catch
c)
overfishing
100 %
