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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) |