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What orbits the Earth and takes measurements of the ocean from space?
satellites
This device is used on the bottom of ships to map seafloor features using sound echoes.
sonar
This was the name of the first ocean exploration vessel.
Challenger
The name of the first satellite designated to study the oceans.
SeaSat A
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Several sea floor features that are technically part of the continents are collectively called these.
Continental margins
The shallowest part of the ocean.
Continental shelf
Underwater volcanoes.
Seamounts
Very deep and flat parts of the ocean.
Abyssal plains
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Underwater mountain chains that extend down the middle of some of the oceans.
Mid-ocean ridges
Steep drop off from the continental shelf to the sea floor.
Continental slope
Ocean basins make up what % of the Earth’s surface?
60%
Flat topped seamounts.
guyots
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Most ocean sediments come from here.
continents
Oozes are the slow accumulation of what on the sea floor.
shells
What ocean zone covers the ocean basins?
Open-ocean
These sediments accumulate the slowest and are made up of metals.
Manganese nodules
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Self contained underwater breathing apparatus is this.
scuba
The deepest point in the ocean is named this.
Marianna trench
The deepest part of the oceans.
trenches
Holes on the seafloor through which magma heated water erupts.
Hydrothermal vents
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The ocean zone found between areas of high tide and low tide.
intertidal
The gently sloping deposits of sediment leading up to the continental slope.
Continental rise
The name of the vessel that first used sonar to map the sea floor.
Meteor
The ocean zone that extends from areas of low tide to the edge of the continental shelf.
neritic
Topic: Satellites
Name one recent satellite that was used to map sea level variations and thus sea floor features.
Topex/Poseiden Jason 1 or 2