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| Hydrothermal Vent | this is where cold water seeps through cracks in the ocean floor, is heated by the mantle, and rises back up bringing minerals
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| Surface zone | the depth from the surface down to 200 meters where sunlight penetrates and the temperature is 17.5 degress Celsius
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| Deep zone | From 1 km down to the ocean floor. No sun reaches this zone and temperature is 3.5 degrees Celsius
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| Current | flow of water in an ocean that may be deep or at the surface
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| Coriolis effect | The earth's rotation causes surface currents to flow in circular patterns
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| Upwelling | upward movement of cold water from the ocean floor
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| Neritic zone | area between intertidal zone and open ocean
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| Holdfast | a bundle of rootlike strands that algae use to attach to rocks
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| bioluminescence | production of light from a living things
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| continential shelf | a gently sloping shallow area of the ocean floor that extends from a continent.
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| seamounts | a mountain that are completely underwater
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| trench | a deep canyon or valley in the ocean floor, so deep that you can't see the bottom
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| run-off | an example of pollution that can't be traced to a specific point (non-point specific)
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| crest | the highest point on a wave
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| plankton | tiny algae and animals that float with the currents
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| food web | the feeding relationship within a habitat
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| brackish water | water made of partly fresh water and partly salty water
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| estuaries | a coastal inlet or bay where fresh river water mixes with salty ocean water
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| salinity | total amount of dissolved salts in the ocean
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| submersible | an underwater vehicle that is able to travel to the deep ocean
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| mangrove forests | short, strong trees that grow well in brackish water and protect the shore from erosion
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| aquaculture | farming of salt and fresh water fish
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| nodules | black lumps of metal that concentrate around shells on the ocean floor
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| Point source pollution | a type of pollution that can be traced to the exact place it began
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| dunes | protect the beach from strong waves crashing against it
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| waves | these form when winds blow across the water surface and transmit their energy into water
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