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Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the Continental Shelf?
Shallow underwater ledge found at the edge of a continent.
A deep slope between a continental shelf and sea floor.
Separates continental slope from ocean bottom.
An opening on the ocean floor where mineral rich water escapes.
What is the Continental Slope?
Shallow underwater ledge found at the edge of a continent.
A deep slope between a continental shelf and sea floor.
Separates continental slope from ocean bottom.
An opening on the ocean floor where mineral rich water escapes.
What is a Continental Rise?
Shallow underwater ledge found at the edge of a continent.
A deep slope between a continental shelf and sea floor.
Separates continental slope from ocean bottom.
An opening on the ocean floor where mineral rich water escapes.
What is the Hydro-thermal Vent?
Shallow underwater ledge found at the edge of a continent.
A deep slope between a continental shelf and sea floor.
Separates continental slope from ocean bottom.
An opening on the ocean floor where mineral rich water escapes.
What is an Abyssal Plain?
A large flat area on the ocean floor
Opening in oceanic crust where magma escapes and makes new crust, can be a mile deeper than the surrounding ridge
A wide ocean mountain range with steep valleys at the center, within the Atlantic Ocean
Narrow channels more than 2 miles deep found along the margins of continents
What is a Rift Valley?
A large flat area on the ocean floor
Opening in oceanic crust where magma escapes and makes new crust, can be a mile deeper than the surrounding ridge
A wide ocean mountain range with steep valleys at the center, within the Atlantic Ocean
Narrow channels more than 2 miles deep found along the margins of continents
What is a Mid-Ocean Ridge?
A large flat area on the ocean floor
Opening in oceanic crust where magma escapes and makes new crust, can be a mile deeper than the surrounding ridge
A wide ocean mountain range with steep valleys at the center, within the Atlantic Ocean
Narrow channels more than 2 miles deep found along the margins of continents
What is a Trench?
A large flat area on the ocean floor
Opening in oceanic crust where magma escapes and makes new crust, can be a mile deeper than the surrounding ridge
A wide ocean mountain range with steep valleys at the center, within the Atlantic Ocean
Narrow channels more than 2 miles deep found along the margins of continents
What is a Seamount
Underwater mountains that number in the thousands and formed from volcanoes
Flat topped underwater mountains
What is a Seamount
Underwater mountains that number in the thousands and formed from volcanoes
Flat topped underwater mountains
are a result of wind. As wind blows longer and harder, more waves will be produced.
Waves
Surface Currents
Tides
move warm water toward the poles and cold water toward the equator.
Waves
Surface Currents
Tides
are the daily rise and fall of sea level due to the gravitational attraction between the Moon, Sun, and Earth.
Waves
Surface Currents
Tides
New and full moons create
Spring tides
Neap Tides
First and third quarter moons create
Spring tides
Neap Tides
The ocean is the largest reservoir of heat at the Earth’s surface.
True
False
The stored heat in the ocean drives much of the Earth’s weather.
True
False
This stored heat also cases the climate near the ocean to be milder than the climate of the interior of continents.
True
False
Warm air is less dense and rises over the land during the day
True
False
Cold air is less dense and rises over the land during the day
True
False
