Oceans quiz
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- upwelling
- waters that move up the continental slope from the deep ocean bringing nutrients from dead plants and animals
- adaptation
- an organisms way of adapting to their enviroment
- twilight zone
- a layer of water under the sunlight zone extends to 3000 feet with dim light
- density
- mass divided by volume. larger densities will sink
- chemosynthetic
- to use hydrogen sulfide that pours from vents for energy to make food.(like photosynthesis)
- sunlight zone
- the top layer of the ocean which extends to 300 ft
- salinity
- the amount of salt in a body of water
- pressure
- the application of force to something
- continental slope
- is much steeper than the shelf and is cut by deep canyons and twisted gorges
- deep sea trench
- deep valleys that seperate the continental slope from the deep sea ocean trenches
- tides
- the slow periodic rise and fall of the ocean waters
- Bioluminescence
- the production of light by living creatures used to attract prey
- prevailing winds
- winds that blow continuously in the same direction
- sodium chloride
- salt found in the ocean
- abyssal plain
- wide slightly rolling plains more then 13000 feet deep made up of sedimate of microscopic shells plants and animals
- mid atlanitc ridge
- a deep sea mountain range that runs through Iceland and Antartica
- wave
- a swell of water that moves energy from one part of the ocean to another
- breakers
- when waves hit the shore, they move water sand and sediment from the bottom onto the beach
- current
- rivers of water that flow through the ocean in a certin direction
- continental shelf
- a gently sloping edge formed by land on the edge of most continents covered with a rich deposite of sedimate including dead plants and animals