Oceans

Question 1

Oceanography

Answer 1

Study of all aspects of ocean

Question 2

Ocean basin

Answer 2

Anywhere on earth

Question 3

Salinity

Answer 3

Dissolved salt content of a body of water

Question 4

Marine

Answer 4

cover more than 70% of the surface of the Earth and account for more than 97% of Earth’s water supply and 90% of habitable space on Earth. Marine

Question 5

Upwelling

Answer 5

a process in which deep, cold water rises toward the surface.

Question 6

Estuary

Answer 6

tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.

Question 7

Abyssal pain

Answer 7

a flat region of the ocean floor, usually at the base of a continental rise, where slope is less than 1:1000

Question 8

Continental shelf

Answer 8

The sea is relatively shallow compared with the open ocean

Question 9

Continental slope

Answer 9

the slope between the outer edge of the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor.

Question 10

Mid-ocean ridge

Answer 10

A mid-ocean ridge is a seafloor mountain system formed by plate tectonics
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Mid-ocean_ridge_cut_away_view.png

Question 11

Ocean trench

Answer 11

Oceanic trenches are prominent long, narrow topographic depressions of the ocean floor

https://res.cloudinary.com/dtpgi0zck/image/upload/s–zapGIZ7f–/c_fit,h_580,w_860/v1/EducationHub/photos/seafloor.jpg

Question 12

Seamount

Answer 12

A seamount is a large geologic landform that rises from the ocean floor that does not reach to the water’s surface, and thus is not an island