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Water Water Cycle Cycle

Ocean Ocean Floor Floor

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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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