Oceanography Test
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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| All the continents once formed this giant landmass | Pangea
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| The Atlantic Grows | Wider
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| The salt in the ocean came from... | minerals on land that were dissolved and carried away by rivers and streams
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| 3 methods for studying the ocean floor include... | sonar, sattelite,and vessels
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| Sonar works by... | sending sound pulses
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| an underwater mountain formed by volcanoes is a ... | seamount
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| the gently sloping area attached to a continent is the... | continental shelf
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| The steeply sloping area between the continental shelf and the ocean floor is... | continental slope
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| Deep, flat areas of the ocean floor are called... | abyssal plains
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| plates at the mid ocean ridges are | tectonic plates
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| producer | an organism that makes food (photosynthesis)
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| consumer | an organism that eats food (could be a carnivore)
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| Benthos | organisms that live on the ocean floor (tiny crawling organisms)
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| Nekton | organisms that swim freely
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| Plankton | organisms that drift or float
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| estuary | forms where rivers run into oceans
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| How are coral reefs formed? | there are organisms called coral that eventually die. When these creatures die they leave their skeleton behind and makes a coral reef
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| How is seaweed used? | making sushi, thickening jellies, and its in ice cream
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| What direction do the arrows point in a food web or chain? | They point to where the energy is going
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| Plates at ocean trenches... | collide and the 1 pushes down below the other
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