Ocean Flashcards

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What are the 5 oceans

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Arctic Indian, southern Pacific Atlantic

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What are the seven continents 

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Asia, Africa, north, and south America, Europe, and Australia antartica

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3
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What percent of earth is covered by ocean water 

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71

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How many major oceans are there on earth? 

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Five Atlantic Pacific, Indian, Arctic and southern 

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5
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What are the properties of the ocean? 

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Geological physical ecological 

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6
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What is the meaning of physical?

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Water moves because the moon creates tides 

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What is the meaning of ecological? 

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Plants and animals

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What is salinity 

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The amount of salt dissolved in water 

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What changes the amount of salt and water? 

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Evaporation depth of water, melting, iceberg, and runoff from land 

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What are tides

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The rise and sink of ocean water 

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What causes tides

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The moon 

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What does Marie mean

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Something found or made in the ocean like plants or animals 

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What does aquatic mean? 

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Anything related to water? 

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14
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 current can be

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Warm or cold 

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15
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Oceans currents, affect,

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The mixing of ocean water

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Ocean currents what are they? 

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Ocean currents are the movement of ocean water 

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17
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What causes ocean currents?

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The wind and water temperature

18
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Which current impacts the area where you live 

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The Gulfstream 

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What is the ocean four terminology? 

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The continental shelf Continental slope, the continental rise, the abyssal plane, and the trench 

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What is the continental

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Is the edge of the continents

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Continental slope is

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With the ocean floor dips down far below the shelf 

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The continental rise is 

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The bottom of the continental slope, where all the soil settles 

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What is the abyssal plane? 

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The abyssal plane includes any flat sections of the ocean floor 

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What is the trench? 

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The trenches, narrow, very deep section far below the ocean four 

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How deep is the continental shelf? 
100 to 200 m deep 
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How deep is the continental slope? 
Ghost from 100 m to 3000 m deep 
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How deep is the abyssal 
Can be anywhere from 4000 to 10,000 meters deep
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How deep is a trench? 
Up to 11,000 meters deep 
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Whatand what is what live above under in deep beneath the surface of the ocean some need of sunlight and others can survive with what 
Plants and animals live above under and deep beneath the surface of the oceans, summoning a lot of sunlight, and others can survive with none 
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What plants and animals live above the up? 
Most marine life lives here, so many animals, example, fish, crab turtles, plants need sun 
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What plants and animals live in the middle zone 
In the middle zone, not much sunlight animals that adapt to little light live here
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What plants and animals live in the bottom
Not much light shrimp, like animals to burn and survive with no sunlight 
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What are our oceans vocabulary words? 
Organism and dweller 
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What is the meaning of organism?
A plant or animal 
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What is the meaning of dweller
Used to describe where something 
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What are the species of the oceans? 
Floating organisms, swimming organisms, non-moving floor, dwellers, 
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What are floating organisms?
Floating organisms drift along the water 
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What are swimming organisms?
Swimming organisms use their bodies to move around 
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What is a non-moving floor dweller 
A non-moving floor dweller is creatures attached the floor of an ocean 
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What are some plants and animals in the marine food web 
Sea birds, whales, sharks, mackerel, small fish, squid, sponge, algae, and plankton 
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What is the sun create?
Energy