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Ocean Floorfeatures

OceanMovement Waves

Marine lifeWild Card

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I am an extensionoff of the continental

crust.

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What is the continental shelf?

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Most sediment is found here.

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What is the abyssal plain?

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The connection from the continental shelf and the

abyssal plain

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What is the continental slope?

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I am deeper than Mount Everest is

tall.

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What is the Mariana trench?

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The majority of the oceans food is

found here.

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What is the continental shelf?

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When two crustal plates move apart.

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What is a divergent boundary?

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When two crustal plates move

together.

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What is convergent boundaries?

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I cause earthquakes in California.

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What is the San Andrea Fault?

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Lava comes up and forms new oceanic crust at a rate of 2.5

cm a year.

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What is the mid-ocean ridge?

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I am formed by the rivers coming from

the continent.

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What is an underwater

canyon?

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I cause the waves to move.

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What are water particles?

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The distance between the crest

of two waves.

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What is a wavelength?

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I am the amplitude squared.

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What is energy of a wave?

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The distance between a crest and

a trough.

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What is amplitude?

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The waves slow down and

eventually break.

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What is a breaker?

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Organisms that float with the

waves.

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What is plankton?

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I swim freely in the ocean.

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What is nekton?

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Marine life that lives on the bottom

of the ocean.

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What are benthos?

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Buoyancy is used for me to move.

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How does a nekton move?

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The beginning of the ocean food

chain.

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What is phytoplankton?

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An area of lava between the upper

mantle and the lower crust

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What is a hot spot?

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The largest mountain ranges on

earth.

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What is the mid-ocean ridge

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The oceanic crust sinks below the

continental crust.

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What is a subduction zone?

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The process of the ocean floor moving and magma

coming seeping up through the crack.

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What is sea-floor spreading?

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A ring of volcano’s that surround the

Pacific Plate

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What is the “Ring of Fire?”