Ocean Vocabulary

The broad edge of a continent that forms a shelf extending underwater from the shore to a depth of approximately 200 meters:

• Current

• Continental Rise

• Tide

• Continental Shelf

The regular rise and fall of ocean water levels due to the gravitational attraction of the moon.

• Current

• Tide

• Salinity

• Water Cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Starts at the edge of the continental shelf and angles down to the deep ocean floor.

• Continental Slope

• Current

• Continental Rise

• Abyssal Plain

A scientist who studies the oceans.

• Sonar

• Tide

• Oceanographer

• Meterologist

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The amount of dissolved salt in the water.

• Seamount

• Ocean Trench

• Desalination

• Salinity

Large regions of the seafloor that are relatively flat.

• Abyssal Plain

• Ocean Trench

• Ocean Wave

• Current

The concentrated flow of water due to temperature, salinity, or sediment changes.

• Distillation

• Current

• Tide

• Continental Rise

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A long, deep, narrow canyon in the seafloor plain.

• Ocean Wave

• Ocean Trench

• Current

• Sonar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The build-up of sediment at the bottom of the continental slope

• Current

• Tidal Wave

• Continental Rise

• Water Cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The removal of salt from salt water to get fresh water

• Desalination

• Salinity

• Seamount

• Deep Ocean Current