5th Grade Ocean
Terms
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- Surface current
- side to side currents caused by winds
- Ocean trenches
- Deep cuts in the ocean floor, found near the abyssal plain
- Continental Rise
- Transision where the continent ends and the ocan begins
- Continental Shelf
- Border of the continent that is below the water and slopes gradually away from the shore
- Continental Slope
- Steep slope down to the ocean floor
- Salinity
- The measure of the amount of dissolved salts in ocean water
- Mesopelagic Zone
- Also called the Twilight zone, little life can live in this zone
- Epipelagic Zone
- Also called the sunlight zone, this zone has the warmest temperatures
- Ocean
- Bodies of salt water surrounding great land masses that cover about 70% of the Earth's surface
- Deep ocean currents
- up and down ocean currents caused by different densities
- bathypelagiz Zone
- Also called the midnight zone, no sunlight reaches this depth
- Abyssal Plain
- Flat, smooth surface made of sediment, the true ocean floow
- Current
- a continuous movement of ocean water in a specific direction