ocean

Question 1

Pacific

Answer 1

The largest ocean- deepest and biggest in volume

Question 2

Atlantic

Answer 2

2nd largest ocean in volume and depth

Question 3

Indian

Answer 3

3rd largest ocean

Question 4

Arctic

Answer 4

4th largest ocean

Question 5

Southern

Answer 5

5th largest, found under the 60th line

Question 6

Salinity

Answer 6

amount of salt in a mixture

Question 7

Surface zone

Answer 7

the top layer of water, warmest

Question 8

thermocline

Answer 8

the 32nd layer of water, temperature declines the fastest

Question 9

Deep zone

Answer 9

3rd layer of water, very cold

Question 10

water cycle

Answer 10

the continuous movement of water from the oceans to clouds to land to lakes back to oceans

Question 11

evaporation

Answer 11

when water warms up into a gas

Question 12

Condensation

Answer 12

when the gas water cools into clouds

Question 13

precipitation

Answer 13

when the water cools further into rain or snow

Question 14

continental shelf

Answer 14

the area of seabed around a large landmass where the sea is relatively shallow compared with the open ocean. The continental shelf is geologically part of the continental crust

Question 15

Continental slope

Answer 15

the slope between the outer edge of the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor.

Question 16

Continental divide

Answer 16

a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea

Question 17

abyssal plain

Answer 17

An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3,000 metres and 6,000 metres.

Question 18

mid-ocean ridge

Answer 18

A mid-ocean ridge is an underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics. It consists of various mountains linked in chains, typically having a valley known as a rift running along its spine

Question 19

rift valley

Answer 19

a large elongated depression with steep walls formed by the downward displacement of a block of the earth’s surface between nearly parallel faults or fault systems.

Question 20

sea mount

Answer 20

A seamount is a mountain rising from the ocean seafloor that does not reach to the water’s surface, and thus is not an island, islet or cliff-rock

Question 21

Ocean trench

Answer 21

Oceanic trenches are topographic depressions of the sea floor, relatively narrow in width, but very long. These oceanographic features are the deepest parts of the ocean floor

Question 22

plankton

Answer 22

the small and microscopic organisms drifting or floating in the sea or fresh water, consisting chiefly of diatoms, protozoans, small crustaceans, and the eggs and larval stages of larger animals. Many animals are adapted to feed on plankton, especially by filtering the water.

Question 23

nekton

Answer 23

aquatic animals that are able to swim and move independently of water currents.

Question 24

benthos

Answer 24

the flora and fauna found on the bottom, or in the bottom sediments, of a sea, lake, or other body of water.

Question 25

desalination

Answer 25

a process that extracts mineral components from saline water