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WorksheetsU2P1 - Vocabulary Words
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
A smooth, nearly flat region of the deep ocean floor.
seamount
abyssal plain
density
groundwater
Density
mass of an object divided by its volume.
the salt content of sea water.
water that fills the cracks and spaces underground soil and rock layers.
a submarine mountain.
A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another stream.
Lake
Sswamp
River
Puddle
the salt content of water
reservoir
watershed
pollution
salinity
a large body of water surrounded by land
stream
lake
river
swamp
an underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water
intertidal zone
aquifers
reservoir
continental shelf
the average kinetic energy of the particles in a substance.
temperature
motion
groundwater
pollution
water that fills the cracks and spaces underground soil and rock layers
trench
aquifers
groundwater
abyssal plain
a gently sloping, shallow area of ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of the continent
open ocean zone
continental shelf
seamount
mid-ocean ridge
a steep incline of the ocean floor leading down the edge of the continental shelf
intertidal zone
groundwater
continental slope
open ocean zone
an area that strentched from the highest high-tide line on land out to the point on the continental shelf exposed by the lowest tide
intertidal zone
continental shelf
open ocean zone
mid-ocean ridge
a region in which a layer of limestone close to the surface creates deep valleys, caverns, and sinkholes
karst topography
mid-ocean ridge
seamount
pollution
the deepest, darkest area of the ocean beyond the edge of the continental shelf
continental slope
mid ocean ridge
open ocean zone
karst topography
the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.
density
water shed
temperature
pollution
a lake that stores water for human use
reservoir
lake
river
trench
a submarine mountain
density
swamp
seamount
mid ocean ridge
an area of low-lying uncultivated ground where water collects
trench
swamp
lake
reservoir
the land that supplies water to our river system
pollution
river
water shed
karst topography
a deep, steep sided canyon in the ocean floor
trench
groundwater
mass
pollution
an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced.
trench
abyssal plain
mid-ocean ridge
open ocean zone
