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Barnett Oceanography Word Scramble

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Question	Answer
salinity	amount of solid material (like salt) dissolved in water
deep ocean trench	place on the seafloor where one plate is subducting beneath another and a long narrow depression forms
mid-ocean ridge	a chain of underwater mountains
upwelling	the rising of cold water from deeper layers to replace warmer surface water that has been moved away; brings nutrients to the ocean surface
abyssal plains	deep, extremely flat features
density	a measure of the amount of matter in a given space
continental shelf	part of the ocean next to the continent that is shallow and fairly flat
continental slope	part of the ocean next to the continental shelf where the seafloor drops off at a steep slope
current	a mass of water is moved by wind or density differences to another part of the ocean
El Nino	periodic warming of the ocean that occurs in the central and eastern Pacific; can change the weather in many parts of the world
thermocline	layer of the ocean around 300 to 1000 meters deep where there is a rapid change in temperature with depth; creates a barrier for many marine life forms
Pacific	this is Earth's largest ocean
Arctic	this is the smallest, most shallow ocean
continental rise	Gradual incline between ocean basin and continental slope