Vocabulary Chapter 3
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| estuary | A place where a freshwater environment and a saltwater environment meet.
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| continental shelf | The gently sloping part of a continent that is under water and rings each continent.
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| continental slope | The edge of a continent that drops steeply down to the deep-ocean floor.
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| abyssal plain | The vast floor of the deep oceans.
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| mid-ocean ridge | The place where plates of the Earth's crust along the ocean floor are being split apart and molten rock pushes up to form new ocean floor and a mountain range.
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| trench | A place where two plates of the Earth's crust hit each other, forming a deep part of the ocean.
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| seamount | A steep-sided volcanic mountain under the ocean.
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| atoll | A ring of islands around a shallow central lagoon.
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| intertidal zone | The area between the high-tide mark and the low-tide mark.
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| coral reef | A structure built by living creatures.
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