Ocean Floor

Question 1

Quartz is found dissolved in ocean water.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

What do you call the large, flat areas of the ocean floor?

Accepted Answer

abyssal plain

Question 3

Name the steep part of the ocean floor that can drop down 2 miles to the continental rise.

Accepted Answer

continental slope

Question 4

What is a wavelength

Accepted Answer

The distance from one crest to the next crest, Distance from one trough to the next trough

Question 5

What causes a tidal wave (tide)?

Accepted Answer

Water being pulled by the moons gravity

Question 6

The saltier the water the ...

Accepted Answer

better you float

Question 7

How many oceans are there in the world?

Accepted Answer

5

Question 8

Tsunamis are caused by...

Accepted Answer

earthquakes

Question 9

Which continent do we live on?

Accepted Answer

North America

Question 10

What does the term salinity mean?

Accepted Answer

How much salt is in the water

Question 11

The flat part of the continent that is covered by seawater is the _________________.

Accepted Answer

continental shelf

Question 12

Scientists use sonar to _________________________.

Accepted Answer

measure the ocean's depth

Question 13

The steeply sloping surface between the edge of the continental shelf and the sea floor is the

Accepted Answer

continental slope

Question 14

ABOUT how much of the earth is covered by water?

Accepted Answer

78%

Question 15

When you are wading in the water, what part of the ocean floor are you standing on?

Accepted Answer

continental shelf

Question 16

Where is there the most animals found in the ocean?

Accepted Answer

along the continental shelf

Question 17

Where the water and the land meet, is called the ____________________.

Accepted Answer

shoreline

Question 18

How many continents are there?

Accepted Answer

7

Question 19

What is the deepest part of the world's oceans?

Accepted Answer

The Mariana Trench

Question 20

What causes surface currents?

Accepted Answer

Wind blowing across the surface

Question 21

What causes deep water currents?

Accepted Answer

Cold salt water sinking

Question 22

Ocean water moves by..

Accepted Answer

tides, wind, waves, currents

Question 23

What do you call the bottom of the wave?

Accepted Answer

trough

Question 24

Copper is found in dissolved in ocean water.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

Most fish can live in both salt and fresh water.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

The deep, flat part of the ocean floor is called the _____________________________.

Accepted Answer

abyssal plain

Question 27

Underwater mountain chains thousands of miles long rising where seafloor is spreading apart.

Accepted Answer

mid-ocean ridge

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