3rd Quarter Exam

Question 1

Irregular current caused by breakers pulling water back into deeper water

Answer 1

Undertow

Question 2

Caused curved paths of current and wind patterns

Answer 2

Coriolis effect

Question 3

Smallest ocean

Answer 3

Arctic Ocean

Question 4

Causes an atoll to change to a guyot

Answer 4

Wave erosion

Question 5

Large body of water that may be surrounded by land

Answer 5

Sea

Question 6

Voyage marked beginning of oceanography

Answer 6

HMS challenger

Question 7

Elements that exists in very small amounts

Answer 7

Trace elements

Question 8

Factors that effect density

Answer 8

Salinity and temperature

Question 9

Water in the ocean moving in giant streams

Answer 9

Currents

Question 10

Type of telescope in which initial image is formed by a concave mirror

Answer 10

Reflecting

Question 11

Form when breakers return to the ocean by cutting channel Through sandbars

Answer 11

Rift current

Question 12

Makes up 97.5% of ocean water

Answer 12

Fresh water

Question 13

The factor that along with precipitation will affect salinity

Answer 13

Evaporation

Question 14

Vast calm warm area of Atlantic Ocean

Answer 14

Sargasso Sea

Question 15

Small bodies that orbit planets

Answer 15

Moons

Question 16

System for measuring time by dividing it into days, weeks, months

Answer 16

Calendar

Question 17

Deepest and largest ocean

Answer 17

Pacific

Question 18

Major factor affecting deep currents

Answer 18

Density

Question 19

Form sandbars

Answer 19

Longshore currents

Question 20

Salt made of sodium and chloride ions

Answer 20

Halite

Question 21

Part of ocean floor made of crust and thin layer of sediment

Answer 21

Deep ocean basin

Question 22

Flattest region on earth

Answer 22

Abssyal plain

Question 23

Located between Mars and Jupiter

Answer 23

Asteroid belt

Question 24

Deepest place on earth’s crust

Answer 24

Trough

Question 25

Objects that circle stars other than our sun

Answer 25

Oxo planets

Question 26

Deep valley of continental shelf or slope

Answer 26

Submarine canyon

Question 27

Distance wind blows across an area of Sea to generate waves

Answer 27

Fetch

Question 28

Major factor affecting surface currents

Answer 28

Winds

Question 29

Used to measure depth of ocean floor

Answer 29

Sonar

Question 30

Region of solar system located beyond Neptune; contains icy bodies

Answer 30

Kuiper belt

Question 31

Earth's second largest ocean is

Answer 31

Atlantic Ocean

Question 32

What ocean surrounds the Antartica

Answer 32

Southern ocean

Question 33

Part of the continent that is covered by water

Answer 33

Continental shelf

Question 34

What is the ratio of the mass of a substance to the volume of a substance

Answer 34

Density

Question 35

What will increase as ocean water becomes colder

Answer 35

Denser

Question 36

What determines the size of a wave

Answer 36

Wind speed, length of time wind blows in one direction, and fetch

Question 37

What forms when waves topple over

Answer 37

Breaker

Question 38

What is described as a periodic up and down movement of water

Answer 38

Wave

Question 39

Periodic rise and fall of the level of ocean water are known as what

Answer 39

Tides

Question 40

Difference in the levels of ocean water at high tide and low tide is known as what

Answer 40

Tidal range

Question 41

The movement of water toward and away from the coast is what

Answer 41

Tidal current

Question 42

The flow of tidal current toward the coast is known as

Answer 42

Flood tide

Question 43

What causes tides

Answer 43

A long fetch

Question 44

The Marian trench is best known for its

Answer 44

Depth

Question 45

forms when winds blow off the crest of a wave

Answer 45

White caps

Question 46

tide that occurs during the full moon and new moon

Answer 46

Spring tide

Question 47

The title current that flows toward the ocean is called what

Answer 47

Ebtide

Question 48

Highest point of the wave

Answer 48

Crest