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Oceanography and Basin Oceanography and Basin
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Process by which liquid water changes into water vapor
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Evaporation
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When plants give off water it’s called this
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Transpiration
Any form of water that falls to the earth
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Precipitation
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Change of state from gas to a liquid
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Condensation
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Total loss of water from an area; water lost from
organisms and land
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Evapotranspiration
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Flattest regions on Earth
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Abyssal Plains
What do scientists use to calculate the depth of the
ocean floor?
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Sonar
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Steep slope from the continental shelf to the
ocean floor
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Continental slope
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Deep valley in the continental margin
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Submarine canyon
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An atoll will eventually become this
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A guyot
Measures the distance sound waves travel
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Sonar
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Depressions located where one tectonic plate subducts beneath another
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Trenches
Part of the continent covered by water (comes out from the shoreline)
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Continental Shelf
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Free moving, self propelled submersible
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bathyscaph
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The study of the physical characteristics, chemical characteristics, and life
forms
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Oceanography
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How much of Earth’s total mass is global ocean?
(fraction)
1/4000
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The continental shelf is part of the ____
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Continent (continental lithosphere)
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Body of water smaller than an ocean and
partially surrounded by land
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sea
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Which research vessel laid the foundation for
oceanography?
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HMS Challenger
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What is the deepest and largestocean on Earth?
Pacific Ocean
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Research submersible that stays connected to the ship
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bathysphere
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Process of removing salt from ocean water
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Desalination
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About 90% of the water used by cities and industry is
returned to rivers or to the oceans as ____
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Wastewater
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What does conservation mean?
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Wise use of fresh water
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Lumps of minerals on the ocean floor
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Nodules
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