Science chapter 12 Flashcards
The amount of salt in water is called ______.
salinity
The downward push of water is called ______.
water pressure
The part of the ocean floor that drops gently near the land is called the ________.
continental shelf
The part of the ocean that stope steeply is called ________.
continental slope
The largest are of the ocean floor are the flat area called _______.
abyssal plains
A ______ is the up-and-down movement of water surface.
The result is a _______, a stream of water that flow like a river through the ocean.
current
This rise and fall in the water level of the ocean is called a _______.
tide
When the soft rock is worn away, the hard rock left behind may form a point of land called a _________.
headline
A temporary pool of ocean water is called a _________.
tide pool
One structure that can do this is a _________, a wall-like structure that stick out into the ocean.
jetty
The area where the ocean and the line meet and intersect is called a _______.
shore
