Ocean's

Question 1

Salinity

Answer 1

A measure of the amount of dissolved salts in a given amount of liquid

Question 2

Water cycle

Answer 2

The continuous movement of water from ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

The change of state from a gas to a liquid

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

Any form of water that falls to the Earths surface from the clouds

Question 5

Continental shelf

Answer 5

Gently sloping section of the continental margin located between the shoreline and the continental slope

Question 6

Continental slope

Answer 6

The steeply inclined section of the continental margin located between the continental rise and the continental shelf

Question 7

Continental rise

Answer 7

The gently sloping section

Question 8

Continental rise

Answer 8

The gently sloping section of the continental margin located between the continental slope and the abyssal plain

Question 9

Abyssal plain

Answer 9

A large, flat, almost level area of the deep ocean basin

Question 10

Mid-ocean ridge

Answer 10

A long undersea mountain chain that forms along the floor of the major oceans

Question 11

Rift valley

Answer 11

A long, narrow valley that forms as tectonic plates separate

Question 12

Seamount

Answer 12

A submerged mountain on the ocean floor that is at least 1,000 m high and that has a volcanic origin

Question 13

Ocean trench

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A steep and long depression in the deep sea floor that runs parallel to a chain of volcanic islands or a continental margin

Question 14

Plankton

Answer 14

The mass of mostly microscopic organisms that float or drift freely in freshwater and marine environments

Question 15

Nekton

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All organisms that swim actively in open water, independent or currents

Question 16

Benthos

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The organisms that live at the bottom of the sea or ocean

Question 17

Desalination

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A process of removing salt from ocean water

Question 18

Pacific Ocean

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Largest and deepest of Earth’s oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean

Question 19

Atlantic Ocean

Answer 19

2nd largest ocean that separates North and South America on the west from the Europe and Africa on the east

Question 20

Indian Ocean

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Ocean bordered by Africa in the west Asia in the north and Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean in the south

Question 21

Arctic Ocean

Answer 21

ocean surrounding the North Pole, north of the Arctic Circle

Question 22

Southern Ocean

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refers to the ring of ocean that circles Antarctica. While the Antarctic continent provides a clear southern boundary, the northern limit of the Southern Ocean is not so clearly defined

Question 23

Surface zone

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any of five great divisions of the earth’s surface with respect to latitude and temperature compare frigid zone, temperate zone, torrid zone

Question 24

Thermocline

Answer 24

steep temperature gradient in a body of water such as a lake, marked by a layer above and below which the water is at different temperatures

Question 25

Deep zone

Answer 25

withstand total darkness, extreme cold,and great pressure. Deep Zone Ocean-The deep zone ocean is a zone of the world’s oceans occupying intermediate position between the abyssalpolegic region and the sea bed