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Science
Chapter 13 - Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Water Cycle | continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean |
evaporation | liquid water becomes water vapor (a gas) |
condensation | water vapor (a gas) in the air turns into liquid water |
precipitation | rain, snow, sleet, or hail falls from clouds in the sky |
transpiration | some water within plants evaporates into the atmosphere |
groundwater | water that is stored in the soil |
desalinization | the measure of the amount of dissolved salts in a given amount of liquid |
continental shelf | begins at the shoreline and slopes gently toward the open ocean - It continues until the ocean floor begins to slope more steeply downward. |
continental slope | begins at the edge of the continental shelf. It continues down to flattest part of the ocean floor |
continental rise | base of the continental slope- made of large piles of sediment |
mid ocean ridges | mountain chains that form when tectonic plates pull apart |
seamounts | an individual mountain of volcanic material - forms when magma pushes its way through or between tectonic plates |
ocean trench | huge cracks in the deep ocean basin. Ocean trenches form where one oceanic plate is pushed beneath a continental plate or another oceanic plate. |
abyssal plain | the broad, flat part of the deep ocean basin |