Chapter 14 Vocabulary
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- Seamounts
- An underwater mountain rising from the ocean floor
- Current Turbidity
- Downhill current in water, air, or other fluid, triggered by the weight of suspended material such as silt in a current flowing down a continental
- Seafloor spreading
- Process that new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates, ridges and spreads out
- Continental Slope
- A steep slope separating a continental shelf and a deep ocean basin
- Submarine
- Small underwater craft used for deep-sea research
- Ocean basin floor
- Between the continental margin and the mid-ocean ridge
- Continental Margin
- Separates the dry-land portion of a continent from the deep ocean floor
- Continental rise
- Gently sloping transition between the continental slope and the deep ocean floor
- Sonar
- Echo sounding to measure ocean depth
- Submarine Canyon
- A steep-sided valley on the sea floor of the continental slope
- Continental Shelf
- A submerged border of a continent that slopes gradually and extends to a point of steeper descent to the ocean bottom
- Mid ocean Ridge
- Mid-oceanic ridge is an underwater mountain range, formed by plate tectonics
- Oceanography
- Science that studies all aspects of the world's oceans
- Abyssal plains
- Are the vast, flat, sediment-covered areas of the deep ocean floor
- bathymetry
- Measurement of oceans depths and charting the shape of the ocean floor