1. Oceanography and Basin WaterCycle Ocean Floor Features TermsGlobalOceanRandom 100 200 300 400 500

2. Process by which liquid water changes into water vapor Answer

3. Evaporation Home

4. Answer When plants give off water it’s called this

5. Home Transpiration

6. Any form of water that falls to the earth Answer

7. Precipitation Home

8. Change of state from gas to a liquid Answer

9. Condensation Home

10. Total loss of water from an area; water lost from organisms and land Answer

11. Evapotranspiration Home

12. Flattest regions on Earth Answer

13. Home Abyssal Plains

14. What do scientists use to calculate the depth of the ocean floor? Answer

15. Sonar Home

16. Steep slope from the continental shelf to the ocean floor Answer

17. Continental slope Home

18. Deep valley in the continental margin Answer

19. Submarine canyon Home

20. An atoll will eventually become this Answer

21. Home. A guyot

22. Measures the distance sound waves travel Answer

23. Sonar Home

24. Answer Depressions located where one tectonic plate subducts beneath another

25. Home Trenches

26. Part of the continent covered by water (comes out from the shoreline) Answer

27. Continental Shelf Home

28. Free moving, self propelled submersible Answer

29. bathyscaph Home

30. The study of the physical characteristics, chemical characteristics, and life forms Answer

31. Oceanography Home

32. Answer How much of Earth’s total mass is global ocean? (fraction)

33. 1/4000 Home

34. The continental shelf is part of the ____ Answer

35. Continent (continental lithosphere) Home

36. Body of water smaller than an ocean and partially surrounded by land Answer

37. sea Home

38. Which research vessel laid the foundation for oceanography? Answer

39. Home HMS Challenger

40. Answer What is the deepest and largest ocean on Earth?

41. Pacific Ocean Home

42. Research submersible that stays connected to the ship Answer

43. bathysphere Home

44. Process of removing salt from ocean water Answer

45. Desalination Home

46. About 90% of the water used by cities and industry is returned to rivers or to the oceans as ____ Answer

47. Wastewater Home

48. What does conservation mean? Answer

49. Wise use of fresh water Home

50. Lumps of minerals on the ocean floor Answer

51. Nodules Home