3rd Quarter Exam Flashcards
Irregular current caused by breakers pulling water back into deeper water
Undertow
Caused curved paths of current and wind patterns
Coriolis effect
Smallest ocean
Arctic Ocean
Causes an atoll to change to a guyot
Wave erosion
Large body of water that may be surrounded by land
Sea
Voyage marked beginning of oceanography
HMS challenger
Elements that exists in very small amounts
Trace elements
Factors that effect density
Salinity and temperature
Water in the ocean moving in giant streams
Currents
Type of telescope in which initial image is formed by a concave mirror
Reflecting
Form when breakers return to the ocean by cutting channel Through sandbars
Rift current
Makes up 97.5% of ocean water
Fresh water
The factor that along with precipitation will affect salinity
Evaporation
Vast calm warm area of Atlantic Ocean
Sargasso Sea
Small bodies that orbit planets
Moons
System for measuring time by dividing it into days, weeks, months
Calendar
Deepest and largest ocean
Pacific
Major factor affecting deep currents
Density
Form sandbars
Longshore currents