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Ocean's
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What are tsunamis caused by?
Underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or landslides!
What do you call circular patterns in which the water travels?
Currents!
What else causes currents to flow?
Wind, continents, and the Coriolis effect!
Do all currents have the same charastics?
NO
What forms features on the bottom of the sea floor?
Tectonic Plates
What is the deepest point in the ocean, and where is it?
Deepest part: 36, 198 in the Mariana trench!
What is the highest mountain in the ocean and where?
Its mountain Mauna Kea, and located in Hawaii!
What type of landform surrounds continents?
The continental shelves!
Where do the continental shelves end?
They steepen out and begin the continental slopes, then leading into the deepest part of the
ocean!
What is beyond the continental slope?
Beyond that, the abyssal plains begin!
What are the deepest parts of the ocean called?
The trenches!
What is a storm surge?
A rise in the ocean as a result of strong winds!
What is the shallowest part of the ocean?
The continental margins!
What are mountains in the ocean, that turn into volcanoes?
Seamount
When one oceanic plate is forced under another, what does it cause?
It makes a trench
Trenches are caused by...?
Subduction!
What does the size of a wave depend on?
How far, how fast, and how long the wind has been blowing!
How fast does sound travel underwater?
1500 meter per seconds!
Sonar stands for...?
Sound Navigation and Ranging
Three resources from the ocean are...?
Fish, energy, fresh water!
What is kelp used for?
Used as thickener, it is a type of seaweed
What type of seafood are raised and harvested in farms?
Shrimp, oysters, crabs, and mussels!
Oil and natural gas are ... resources?
Non-renewable!
When plates move apart from each other, the motion causes a crack in the ocean called a?
Rift!
How much of earth does the ocean take up?
75%