Vocab for Oceanography
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| salinity | measure of dissolved salt in a liquid
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| sodium chloride | common table of salt
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| continental shelf | part of the ocean floor that begins right before the shores and slopes
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| continental slope | part of the ocean floor, at the edge of the continental shelf
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| seamount | underwater mountain far away from the mid ocean ridge
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| mid-ocean ridge | an underwater mountain range forming on both sides of the rift
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| trench | V-shape valley on the ocean floor
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| abyssal plain | flat region on ocean floor
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| crest | highest point of a wave
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| tough | lowest point on a wave
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| wavelength | length of a wave
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| upwelling | movement of the ocean
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| surface current | water movement right on the surface of the water
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| deep current | movement of water far below the surface
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| coriolis effect | northern hemisphere=clockwise
southern hemisphere=counter clockwise
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| Tides | surface level of the ocean ocean cause by the gravitational attraction
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