Ocean Flashcards
(41 cards)
What are the 5 oceans
Arctic Indian, southern Pacific Atlantic
What are the seven continents 
Asia, Africa, north, and south America, Europe, and Australia antartica
What percent of earth is covered by ocean water 
71
How many major oceans are there on earth? 
Five Atlantic Pacific, Indian, Arctic and southern 
What are the properties of the ocean? 
Geological physical ecological 
What is the meaning of physical?
Water moves because the moon creates tides 
What is the meaning of ecological? 
Plants and animals
What is salinity 
The amount of salt dissolved in water 
What changes the amount of salt and water? 
Evaporation depth of water, melting, iceberg, and runoff from land 
What are tides
The rise and sink of ocean water 
What causes tides
The moon 
What does Marie mean
Something found or made in the ocean like plants or animals 
What does aquatic mean? 
Anything related to water? 
 current can be
Warm or cold 
Oceans currents, affect,
The mixing of ocean water
Ocean currents what are they? 
Ocean currents are the movement of ocean water 
What causes ocean currents?
The wind and water temperature
Which current impacts the area where you live 
The Gulfstream 
What is the ocean four terminology? 
The continental shelf Continental slope, the continental rise, the abyssal plane, and the trench 
What is the continental
Is the edge of the continents
Continental slope is
With the ocean floor dips down far below the shelf 
The continental rise is 
The bottom of the continental slope, where all the soil settles 
What is the abyssal plane? 
The abyssal plane includes any flat sections of the ocean floor 
What is the trench? 
The trenches, narrow, very deep section far below the ocean four