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Features of the Ocean Floor Worksheet
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http://www.mos.org/oceans/motion/currents.html
What do you call the circular patterns in which the world’s oceans travel? ______________________
What body of water can these patterns be compared to?___________________________________________
What else causes currents to flow? ___________________________________________________________________
Do all currents have the same characteristics? _______________________________
What makes them different? __________________________________________________________________________
Describe the Gulf Stream by its characteristics.
Besides cold water what does the Humboldt Current normally bring to the surface?
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http://www.secretsatsea.org/story/3a.html
8. For what are currents responsible? ________________________________________________________
9. Major ocean currents maintain their paths like___________________________.
http://www.mos.org/oceans/planet/features.html
10. What is the Average Depth of the ocean? ______________________________________________________________
11. What is the Deepest point and where is it? ____________________________________________________________
12. What is the highest Mountain and where is it? ________________________________________________________
13. Around most continents are shallow seas that cover gently sloping areas. What are these areas
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14. Where do the continental shelves end? _________________________________________________________________
15. What is beyond the continental slope? _________________________________________________________________
16. Describe the abyss in a complete paragraph.
17. What are the deepest parts of the oceans called? ______________________________________________________
http://www.mos.org/oceans/motion/wind.html
18. The size of the wave depends on_________________________________________________________________________
19. Waves travel_______________water, they do not take ________________ with them.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/ocean/Waves.shml
20. Tsunamis are sometimes called tidal waves, and are different from surface waves: they are usually
caused by __________________________________________________________________________________________________.