Ocean Test Review

Question 1

the continual rise and fall of water in seas and oceans

Answer 1

tides

Question 2

The lowest point of the water

Answer 2

low tide

Question 3

highest point of the water

Answer 3

high tide

Question 4

What pulls the water on the side

of Earth facing it to create a high tide?

Answer 4

the moon’s gravity

Question 5

the sun and moon are at right angles and create special tides with low tides that aren’t as low and high tides that aren’t as high as normal.

Answer 5

neap tides

Question 6

the sun and moon are in a line and create tides that have higher high tides and lower low tides than normal

Answer 6

spring tides

Question 7

the massive flow of water through Earth’s oceans.

Answer 7

ocean current

Question 8

rivers of water that move through the ocean’s surface.

Answer 8

surface currents

Question 9

winds that move from east to west, towards the equator.

Answer 9

trade winds

Question 10

winds that move from west to east, away from the equator.

Answer 10

westerlies

Question 11

the gently sloping part of the ocean floor nearest land

Answer 11

continental shelf

Question 12

the steep drop of ocean floor between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain

Answer 12

continental slope

Question 13

the large, flat part of the ocean floor

Answer 13

abyssal plain

Question 14

underwater mountain

Answer 14

seamount

Question 15

peaks that form an underwater mountain chain alongside a central valley

Answer 15

mid-ocean ridge

Question 16

an ocean canyon

Answer 16

trench

Question 17

particles that settle on the ocean floor

Answer 17

sediments

Question 18

the amount of salt dissolved in

water

Answer 18

salinity

Question 19

the curving effect on

winds and currents that results from Earth’s rotation.

Answer 19

Coriolis effect

Question 20

the result of differences in the density of ocean water.

Answer 20

deep current

Question 21

a process in which deep, cold water rises to the surface.

Answer 21

upwelling

Question 22

tiny, plant-like organisms that cannot swim against current and use sunlight to make their own food by
photosynthesis.

Answer 22

phytoplankton

Question 23

animal-like organisms that drift in the water and feed on other organisms

Answer 23

zooplankton

Question 24

tiny organisms that are planktonic for their whole lives

Answer 24

holoplankton

Question 25

organisms that are planktonic for merely part of their lives

Answer 25

meroplankton

Question 26

when salt is removed from ocean water

Answer 26

desalination

Question 27

the electric energy generated by the difference between the water level of the ocean’s high and low tides

Answer 27

tidal energy