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