Oceans Flashcards
biggest ocean
Pacific ocean
2nd biggest ocean
Atlantic ocean
3rd biggest ocean
Indian ocean
covered by ice
Arctic ocean
5th controversial ocean
southern ocean
salt level in ocean
salinity
warmest part in water.
surface zone
middle part pf ocean
thermocline
deepest coldest part.
deep zone
water movement
water cycle
water turning into water vapor
evaporation
water vapor forming clouds
condensation
clouds dropping rain
precipitation
The continental shelf is an underwater landmass which extends from a continent, resulting in an area of relatively shallow water known as a shelf sea
continental shelf
the slope between the outer edge of the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor.
continental slope
is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas. Wikipedia
continental divide
.An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3,000 metres and 6,000 metres.
abbysal plain
.an underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics
mid ocean ridge
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.
rift valley
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.
sea mount
topographic depressions of the sea floor
ocean trench
microscopic animals that
plankton
swimming animals in the ocean
nekton
crabs and other organisms like that
benthos
process that extracts mineral components from saline water. More generally, desalination refers to the removal of salts and minerals from a target substance, as in soil
desalination
