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| A measure of the amount of dissolved salts and other solids in a given amount of liquid. |
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| A very slow moving river of ice. |
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| Water that is located within rocks below the Earth's surface. |
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| A scientist who studies the oceans. |
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| Ordinary table salt. A mix of the elements sodium and chlorine. |
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| based on the echo ranging behavior of bats. used by sending high frenquency sound pulses from a ship to the ocean floor. the longer the pulse takes to get back to the ship, the deeper the water. |
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| slopes gently down the edge of a continent; usually no deeper than 150 meters. it can extend from a few killometers to hundreds of killometers away from a shore. |
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| slopes steeply from the continental shelf. it can drop off to a depth of about 2,000meters and it is usualy less than 150 kilometers wide. |
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| A steep V shaped canyon that cuts throught the continental shelf& slope. some are deeper than the grand canyon. they can be 1-15 killometers wide and can reach depths of about 2,000 meters |
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| The flat ocean bottom. the flattest place on earth. Can be 1-1,000 killometers wide and 2-5 killometers deep. |
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| a steep walled, pointy, extinct volcano. it can rise more than 1,000 meters from the sea floor and can be 2-100 killometers wide |
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| A flat topped seamount flattened by the action of waves. |
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| an Undersea mountin range; at more than 60,000 killometers long, this is the longest mountin range on Earth. It runs continuously through all of Earths oceans. it is 500-1,500 killometers wide and takes up about one third of the sea floor. |
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| A deep valley in the midocean ridge formed where the sea flooris pulled apart by forces acting below the floor. it can be 25-50 killometers wide and 1-2 killometersdeeper than the tops of the surrounding mountins. |
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| A very steep sided narrow cut in the ocean floor. (The deepest art of the ocean) they can be 30-100 killometerswide, can drop3-5 killometers bellow nearbyocean floors, and can reach a depth of more than 11,000 meters |
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| An ocean currant that moves along the top part of the ocean |
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| The highest point of a wave |
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| the lowest part of a wave. |
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| the vertical distance between the wave's crest and trough |
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| the distance from the crest of one wave to the crest of another |
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| very steep-sided narow cut in the ocean floor that contains odd animals with lights. |
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| a"river" of water that flows through the ocean. that carreis recorces |
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| the rise and fall of the ocean's surface caused mostly by the gravitationl pull of the moon. |
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| a desturbence that transfers energy throgh matter or space |
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| deep valley in the mid ocean. |
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| a scientist who studies the oceans |
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