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Oceanography ES.10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why are oceans important? | food, mineral resources, human recreation, and transportation |
| Does over-fishing help or harm the ocean? | harm |
| What shapes the seafloor? | plate tectonics |
| What is a continental shelf? | the flat area that extends from the shoreline to the continental slope |
| What is a abyssal plain | the flat seafloor from the continental rise to the mid- ocean ridge |
| What are seamounts? | underwater volcanoes |
| What is the continental slope?? | the steeply sloping area that is between the continental shelf and the rise |
| What is the major mechanism of energy transfer in the oceans, atmosphere and the Earth’s Interior | Convection |
| What isthe periodic rise and fall of the water level caused by the moon and sun | Tides |
| What are most waves generated by? | waves |