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Exploring the Ocean
If you've ever been to the beach, it may have seemed to you that he water always
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the abyssal plains? | a very local area of the deep ocean floorm usually lying at the foot of the continental slope. |
| What is the Continental Slope? | the relatively shallow seabed surrounding the abyssal zone. |
| What is the Continental Slope? | the steep descent of the seabed fromthe continental shelf to the abyssal zone. |
| What are currents? | cold or warm streams of seawater that flows in the oceans |
| Desalination | the removal of salt |
| Headlands | a natural elevation |
| hydrologist | studies water and the water cycle |
| jetty | a protective structure of stone and concrete |
| Salinity | a measure of the amount of dissloved salts in a given amount of liquid. |
| scuba | a device that lets divers breathe underwater. |
| Shore | The land along the edge of a body of water |
| sonar | a measuring instrument that sends out acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terems of the time. |
| submersibles | small underwater crafts used for deep sea searching |
| Tide | the rise and fall of the sea level accoding to the gravitational pull of the moon |
| Tide Pool | a pool of sea water found along a rocky shore |
| Water Pressure | the weight of water pressing on an object that increases with depth |
| Wave | a movement like that of an ocean wave |
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