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The Ocean Unit Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The general movements of the ocean waters are called | ocean currents |
| The chief cause of ocean currents is the | global winds |
| The turning of the earth makes the currents | move at an angle |
| An ocean current turns about when it comes near a | continent |
| In the part of the world you live, the ocean currents move in a direction | clockwise |
| Ocean currents are classified as and | warm currents cold currents |
| Warm currents start near the | equator |
| Cold currents start near the | poles |
| Name the oceans | Atlantic,Pacific, Indian |
| Which is the largest ocean | Pacific |
| What other names do we use for areas of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans | Arctic and Antarctic Oceans |
| A group of connected waves is called a a)crest b)wave length c) wave train d) waves height | c) wave train |
| A wave height is the distance between a) two adjacent b) two adjacent troughs c) a crest and a trough d) both a and b | c) a crest and a trough |
| Waves are caused by a) tides b) earthquakes c) wind d) all of the above | d) all of the above |
| Most waves are caused by a) tides b) earthquakes c) wind d) volcanoes | c) wind |
| The distance wind blows over water is called its a) wave length b) fetch c) mileage d) swell | b) fetch |
| Most of the earth's water is found in the | oceans |
| The oceans lie in huge | trenches |
| The part of the continent that is under the ocean is called the | continental shelf |
| the continental shelf slopes | gradually |
| At the end of the continental slope, the ocean floor drops | sharply |
| The deep-sea basin starts at the end of the | continental slope |
| Mountain ranges in the ocean are called | basins |
| Valleys in the continental shelf are called | submarine |
| The deepest places along the ocean floor are | mid-ocean ridge |
| The deepest trench in the world is the | Marianas |
| underwater mountain ranges | mid-ocean ridge |
| earth | water planet |
| deepest part of the earth | trench |
| low part of a continental covered by the ocean | continental shelf |
| flat area | plain |
| The earth is the only planet | false |
| Only our planet has a lot of water | true |
| The earth's water layer is called the atmosphere | false |
| the continental shelf has a gentle slant | true |
| The continental slope has a gentle slant | false |
| The deep-sea floor starts at the beginning of the continental shelf | false |
| A ridge is a high place on the ocean floor | true |
| A submarine canyon is a low place on the ocean floor | true |
| a submarine canyon is deeper than a trench | false |
| The ocean floor has some flat places | true |
| Most of the oxygen we breathe comes from | phytoplankton |
| Plankton live in the | ocean |
| The oceans supply most of the water vapor that returns to earth as | rain and snow |
| Without the oceans, our planet would be a planet | dead |
| People eat many things that live in the ocean. Three examples are | shellfish, fish, and seaweed |
| Trash fish are fish that are not good to . They are made into . | eat fertilizer |
| Large deposits of have been discovered along coastal waters. | oil and natural gas |
| Ocean water contains every known | mineral |
| Three minerals we do take from sea water are | salt, bromine, and manganese |
| supply most of the oxygen to the atmosphere | phytoplankton |
| floating sea animals | zooplankton |
| some minerals we take from the sea | salt,manganese, bromine |
| used for fertilizer | trash fish |
| used for oil drilling in the ocean | floating platforms |
| Green plants give off oxygen | true |
| All green plants grow on land | false |
| Most of our oxygen comes from zooplankton | false |
| Most of our oxygen comes from phytoplankton | true |
| Phytoplankton are large | false |
| The ocean is an important source of food | true |
| Seaweed is a food | true |
| The oceans have only small deposits of oil | false |
| Every mineral we use comes from the ocean | false |
| Huge amounts of water evaporate from the ocean. This means that the oceans are drying out | false |