oceans

Question 1

Pacific Ocean

Answer 1

Holds the Mariana Trench

Question 2

Atlantic Ocean

Answer 2

It has the about half the volume as the Pacific

Question 3

Indian Ocean

Answer 3

Third-largest ocean

Question 4

Arctic Ocean

Answer 4

The smallest ocean

Question 5

Southern Ocean

Answer 5

The ice fish family is in that ocean

Question 6

Salinity

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Surface zone

Answer 7

warm top layer of ocean water

Question 8

Thermocline

Answer 8

is the second layer of ocean water

Question 9

Deep zone

Answer 9

is the bottom layer that expands from the base of the thermocline to the bottom of the ocean

Question 10

water cycle

Answer 10

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

Question 11

evaporation

Answer 11

liquid to a gas

Question 12

condensation

Answer 12

has to a liquid

Question 13

precipitation

Answer 13

liquid falling

Question 14

Continental shelf

Answer 14

begins at the shoreline and slopes gently toward the open ocean

Question 15

continental slope

Answer 15

begins at the edge of the continental shelf

Question 16

continental rise

Answer 16

which is the base of the continental slope, is made of large piles of sediment

Question 17

abyssal plain

Answer 17

is the broad, flat part of the deep-ocean basin

Question 18

mid-ocean ridge

Answer 18

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

Question 19

rift valley

Answer 19

a long narrow valley that forms as tectonic plates separate

Question 20

seamount

Answer 20

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

Question 21

ocean trench

Answer 21

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

Question 22

plankton

Answer 22

the mass of mostly microscopic organisms that float or drift freely in freshwater and marine environment

Question 23

Nekton

Answer 23

all organisms that swim actively in open, water independent of currents

Question 24

Benthos

Answer 24

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

Question 25

desalination

Answer 25

is a process that takes away mineral components from saline water.