Earth and Environmental Science Honors Unit 11 Review

The measure of the amount of dissolved salts in seawater

Where does all the cold water on the bottom of the ocean come from?

Plots changing water temperatures with depth

Which of these is not an ocean?

What is the highest point in a wave called?

What is oceanography?

Which water mass is the coldest?

What does SONAR stand for?

What is the lowest point in a wave called?

What are long ridges of sand or other sediment that are separated from the mainland?

Which is not an ocean layer?

What is a sloping band of sand, pebbles, gravel, or mud at the edge of the sea?

What are submerged basaltic volcanoes over 1 km high called?

The salinity of seawater increases when salt ions are added to it

What is a technique that directs sound waves to the seafloor at an angle?

Scientists hypothesize that water could have originated from...

What are the submerged parts of continents called?

Characterized by rapidly decreasing temperatures with depth

Average salinity of oceans

Where does freshwater meet saltwater?

What is a wave?

Which hemisphere has the most water coverage?

What percentage of Earth is covered by oceans?

What is the name of the first research ship to investigate ocean currents?

Which light penetrates the ocean the most?

What are rapidly flowing currents at the bottom of the sea called?

Which ocean contains roughly half of the Earth's seawater?

Average global sea level is slowly rising every year in DIRECT response to:

A long time ago, volcanoes released huge amounts of gases that formed:

The shallowest part of a continental margin is the...