Vocabulary Quiz 01/17

What is an estuary?

• A place where rivers meet the ocean, mixing freshwater and saltwater

• A large body of freshwater surrounded by land

• A deep underwater valley in the ocean

• A stream that flows into a lake or pond

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What does thermohaline mean?

• Heat and light

• Salt and temperature differences in the ocean

• Movement of ocean water caused by wind

• A type of weather pattern

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What is a watershed?

• A building that stores water

• The area of land where all the water drains to the same place

• A large underground water source

• A shallow area near the ocean

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What is the Global Ocean Conveyor Belt?

• A long bridge that crosses the ocean

• A system of deep and surface currents moving water around the world

• The line where the ocean meets the land

• A device used to measure waves

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What is a deep current?

• Water moving far below the surface of the ocean

• Waves caused by the wind

• A river flowing into the ocean

• Water moving in shallow areas of the ocean

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What is the Coriolis Effect?

• The reason ocean currents move in curved paths

• The mixing of saltwater and freshwater

• The process of heating water near the equator

• The pulling of water toward the poles

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What does brackish mean?

• Freshwater that is extremely clean

• Water that is salty and fresh mixed together

• Water that is frozen in glaciers

• Water with no salt in it

What is biodiversity?

• The variety of living things in an environment
• A place with very few plants or animals

• A type of plant found in the ocean

• A measure of how clean water is

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What is upwelling?

• Warm water sinking to the bottom of the ocean

• Cold water rising to the surface, bringing nutrients

• A wave moving toward the shore

• The mixing of ocean layers by wind

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What is an ocean current?

• Water that is completely still

• A large stream of moving water in the ocean

• A small wave near the shore

• Water falling from the sky

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