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Oceans by Camden
a flash card set about oceans.
25 cards·by cmrider
oceansdel mar pines
What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered with water?
71%
The global ocean is divided by the continents into ____ main oceans
Five
What is the largest ocean?
Pacific Ocean
What is the ocean that is about half the volume of the Pacific Ocean?
Atlantic Ocean
What is the third-largest ocean?
Indian Ocean
What is the ocean whose surface is partly covered by ice?
Arctic Ocean
What is the ocean that extends from the coast of Antarctica to 60 degrees latitude?
Southern Ocean
____________ is a science that studies all aspects of the ocean.
Oceanography
Which hemisphere has more ocean area?
Southern Hemisphere
Which hemisphere has less ocean area?
Northern Hemisphere
__________ is a science that studies all aspects of the ocean.
Bathymetry
Name one technology that makes mapping the ocean easier (Hint: It begins with S!)
Sonar
____________ are small underwater crafts used for deep sea research.
Submersibles
Most ocean waves obtain their energy and motion from the ____.
Wind
What is the vertical distance between the trough and the crest?
Wave Height
What is the horizontal distance between two successive crests or two successive troughs?
Wavelength
What is the time it takes one full wave to pass a fixed position?
Wave Period
What is salinity?
A measure of the amount of dissolved salts in a given amount of liquid.
What is thermocline?
A layer in a body of water in which water temperature drops with increased depth faster than it
does in other layers.
What are the two major regions of the ocean floor?
Continental margin and the deep-ocean basin.
What are the subdivisions of the Continental Margin?
continental shelf, continental slope, and continental rise
What are the subdivisions of the Deep-Ocean basin?
abyssal plain, mid-ocean ridges, rift valleys, and ocean trenches
What are the ocean features?
Mountain ranges, seamounts, guyots, and ocean trenches
What thing allows energy to move forward through the water while the individual water
particles that transmit the wave move around in a circ
Circular orbital motion
What are the three parts of tide cycle?
Tidal Range, Spring Tides, and Neap Tides