6th grade -SMS - Oceanography Vocab Review
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| continental landmass | large land area rising above the ocean level
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| continental slope | sharp drop-off going down to the ocean bottom
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| mid-ocean ridge | huge underwater chain of mountains
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| seamount | submerged volcano rising up from the sea floor
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| island | peak of an undersea mountain which shows through the surface
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| guyot | old and worn, flat-topped seamount, always under water
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| continental shelf | gently sloping extension of he land mass, covered by a few hundred feet of ocean
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| abyssal plain | large, very flat area on the ocean floor
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| rift valley | huge crack in the middle of the undersea mountain chain
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| trench | deepest parts of the ocean, where a valley is formed by sections of the earth's crust coming together
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| ocean basin | lower parts of the earth's surface where the oceans are found
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| ocean floor | bottom of the ocean basin
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| ooze | organic sediment on the ocean floor
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| turbidity current | moving water which carries mud and sand down a slope
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| red clay | non-organic sediment on the ocean floor
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| submarine canyons | huge cut in the undersea shelf and slope, caused by moving mud and water (underwater landslide)
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| sediment | sand, gravel, clay and other materials which settle out of the ocean water and cover the ocean floor
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| plate tectonics | theory that the surface of the earth isnot one solid shell, but is made up of seven huge pieces called plates
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| oceanography | the study of the ocean
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| How much of earth is covered by oceans? | 70-75 percent
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| How deep is the ocean floor? | 4 - 5 kilometers
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