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What is the process of converting liquid water into vapor water?
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What is the term for measuring the acidity of a liquid?
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There is only one ocean on our planet, which one of these is not one of the 5 parts Southern, Norhtern, Indian, Arctic?
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As you decrease the temperature of ocean water, and keep the salt content exactly the same, will the density of the water increase or decrease?
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cycle What cycle shows all the processes that water goes through to help it move around the planet?
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Science What is the study of all aspects of the water, marine life, and geology associated with the ocean?
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plain What is the flat ocean floor that covers 50% of the ocean?
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map What tool is used by oceanographers to look at the depths and features of the ocean floor?
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of fire What is the name of the area that is a specific region characterized by lots of seismic activity such as earthquakes and volcanoes?
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What is the main way that surface currents form?
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effect What is the main reason wind and ocean currents bend due to the earth's rotation?
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If two currents that are the same temperature but different salinities come together, will the one with less or more saline rise above the other?
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What is the name of a tidal current that leaves the land?
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current What is a movement of water mass from one location to another?
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current What type of current is characterized by zig-zag movement of sand particles
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stream What is the name of the current that starts just south of florida as warm water travels up the coast of the eastern united states and then heads over toward Europe?
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Which type of current brings nutrients and oxygen from the lower depths of the ocean to the surface parts of the ocean?
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currents What is the name of the currents that are known as the global ocean conveyor belt?
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South American, Canadian, Pacific
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Which of the following is NOT one of the 7 major tectonic plates,African, South American, Canadian, Pacific
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Which plate boundary is lateral sliding, conservative, and doesn't have any major effects?
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spot What is the specific area called when it is a moving thin spot in earth's crust directly above a stationary lava dome?
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and longitude How do we accurately describe a location of a place on earth?
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What are the lines on a bathymetric map that indicate depth called?
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When contour lines, or isobaths, are closely spaced together, what is the elevation or depth change?
