Oceanography Questions
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Without currents, the world's climates would be _____.
A single high and low tide daily is called a _____. Two unequal high and low tides daily is called a _____ tide.
The difference between successive high and low tide (waters) is called its _____.
_____ is the distance between the identical spot on two waves.
Pelagic zone found below 6,000 m, in the trenches
Boundaries between continental crust and oceanic crust
The steepest part of the continental margin, where it descends down to the ocean floor
A trial without experimental variable, used for comparison
Charles Darwin's observations led eventually to the theory of _____.
Bounded on the west by Africa and to the north by Asia
Formed by sediments that have been pushed down from the continental shelf and slope
Shallow part of the continental margin that is closer to land and is a critical marine habitat because light can reach all the way to the bottom
Circumpolar body of water encircling the continent of Antarctica
The thermocline is the boundary between layers of water with differing _____.
The sun and moon are aligned in a right angle with Earth at its vortex. What kind of tide would this procedure?
The organisms that swim, from small invertebrates to large whales are called _____.
A parallel is another name for a _____. The 0° parallel is called _____.
Water becomes _____ dense as it freezes. This is _____ as most substances.
As the salinity level of water decreases and the temperature increases, what happens to the density of water?