Chapter 13 BJU Earth Science Terms

What changes with the rising and the falling of the tides

a large section of ocean mostly surrounded by land

The level of the sea's surface at a particular place and time

Strip of land that separates the coastal region from the ocean

Mountain Ranges that seem to be extinct volcano rising from the Abyssal Plain

Anything caused by breaking waves including the berm, shore, and any longshore bars

The calculated average height of high and low tides in a particular location

What is the zero height that is used by cartographers?

The shallow, submerged edge of land extending from the beach offshore

The steeper incline for the lip of the continental shelf into the ocean basin

Submerged mountain system uplifted by rising mantle rock at a divergent boundary

The strip along the coast that is shaped by sea level and wave motion

flat, deep sea floor of an ocean basin

A vast body of water that separates continents

What does MSL stand for?

Thick deposit of loose sediments that transitions from the continental slope to the ocean floor

Complex underwater erosional feature found in a continental slope