Ocean Unit
Terms
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- The weight of water pressing on an object.
- water pressure
- Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.
- scuba
- Precipitation resulting from pollution condensing into clouds and falling to the Earth.
- acid rain
- The place where a freshwater river empties into an ocean.
- estuary
- Saltiness of the ocean.
- Salinity
- An underwater vehicle.
- submersible
- Waste products that damage an ecosystem.
- pollution
- The repeated rise and fall in the level of the ocean.
- tide
- An up-and down movement of surface water.
- wave
- A wall-like structure made of rocks that sticks out into the ocean.
- jetty
- A luxury liner that hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the ocean in 1912.
- Titanic
- The area where the ocean and land meet and interact.
- shore
- A pool of sea water found along a rocky shoreline.
- tide pool