Ocean Floor Review - Bryson S., Derrick N., Nathan T.

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What percentage of Earth's surface is covered by water?

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71%

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Which ocean is the largest?

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Pacific

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What is the order of the oceans largest to smallest?

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Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic.

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What types of technology do scientists use to map the ocean?

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Sonar, Submersibles, and Satelites.

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Scientists use satellites to measure what

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Sea-surface height

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Which region of the ocean floor is NOT one of the three main regions

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Continental Rock

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The continental margins of the Pacfiic Ocean are

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More narrow then those from the Atlantic and aren't covered with this layers of sediment

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Trenches form at sites where

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One plate descents beneath another

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Abyssal plains are very flat features that form wehn

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Currents deposit sediments on the ocean floor.

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What forms at mid-ocean ridges?

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New ocean floor