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2nd 9 Weeks Science Flashcards

5.6 Oceans
5.7 Changing Earth

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5.6 - What is the flat sea floor called?Abyssal Plain
5.6 - What is the zone of shallow water between the shore and the continental slope?Continental Shelf
5.6 - What is the flow of water from one place to another called?Currents
5.6 - What is the deepest feature in the ocean?Trench
5.6 - What are microscopic organisms in the ocean?Plankton
5.6 - What are sand, clay, silt, mud and small rocks?Sediments
5.6 - What are large deep sections of the ocean called?Basins
5.6 - What is a mound of sediments at the base of the continental slope?Continental Rise
5.6 - What is the steep area between the ocean floor and the continental shelf?Continental Slope
5.6 - What is a warm current off the Virginia coast?Gulf Stream
5.6 - What are microscopic plants in the ocean?Phytoplankton
5.6 - What is the amount of salt in the ocean called?Salinity
5.6 - Oceans cover approximately what percent of the Earth's surface?70%
5.6 - What causes the twice- daily rise and fall of sea level?Tides
5.6 - Most waves are caused by what?Wind
5.6 - What happens to pressure as you go deeper?Increases
5.6 - Approximately how many high tides occur every day?2
5.6 - Why can't scuba divers explore the deep ocean floor?High pressure would crush them
5.6 - What is the most common dissolved solid in the ocean?Salt (sodium chloride)
5.6 - What is the main cause of tides?Moon's Gravity
5.6 - What happens to temperature as you go deeper in the ocean?Decreases
5.6 - Why do plants only live near the top of the ocean?They need sunlight
5.6 - What organisms are the base of the ocean ecosystem?Phytoplankton
5.6 - Compared to the middle of the ocean, describe the salinity near where a river enters the sea?Less salinity
5.7 - What is Earth's thinnest layer?Crust
5.7 - What do we call it when tectonic plates pull apart?Divergent Boundary
5.7 - What is it called when wind, water or glaciers carry away soil and rocks?Erosion
5.7 - What do we call remains or evidence of past life, preserved in rock?Fossil
5.7 - What is the largest of Earth's layers?Mantle
5.7 - What type of rock forms from magma or lava?Igneous Rock
5.7 - What do we call it when tectonic plates push together?Convergent Boundary
5.7 - What is the shaking of the land caused by plate movement?Earthquake
5.7 - Whatisacrackinthe land where movement has occurred?Fault
5.7 - What is the center of the Earth called?Inner Core
5.7 - Which layer is liquid and is third from the surface?Outer Core
5.7 - Which rock forms when rocks are exposed to heat and pressure?Metamorphic Rock
5.7 - What is a huge chain of underwater mountains that form at divergent boundaries?Mid-Ocean Ridge
5.7 - What do we call the changes that rocks go through?Rock Cycle
5.7 - What do we call the sections of Earth that are moving around?Tectonic Plates
5.7 - What is an opening in the Earth where lava escapes?Volcano
5.7 - What is the age of Earth?4.6 billion years
5.7 - Of what is the crust composed?Rock
5.7 - What is a naturally occurring solid that is made of minerals?Rock
5.7 - Which rock is made from bits of other rocks stuck together?Sedimentary Rock
5.7 - What is the deepest feature of the ocean floor?Trench
5.7 - How are rocks broken down into pieces?Weathering
5.7 - Of what is the center of Earth composed?Iron and Nickel
5.7 - What causes the plates to move?Heat inside Earth (convection)


Phenix PreK-8 School
Hampton , VA

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