All terms in this list:
surface current: wind
10%
bottom of the ocean: salty and cold
seamount: A mountain that rises from the floor of the ocean and does not breach the water's surface.
1-4 largest to smallest oceans: 1. pacific
2. Atlantic
3. Indian
4. Arctic
Deep Ocean current: density
temp changes
1. deep (bottom)
ocean current: Any more or less permanent or continuous, directed movement of water that flows in one of the Earth's oceans.
Pacific: shrinking
touches all five continents
larger than 7 contiments
80% of ocean: southern hemisphere
neap tide: The tide which occurs when the Moon is in its first and third quarter; the effects of the Sun and Moon being partially cancelled out this type of tide is of minimum range.
spring tide: The tide which occurs when the moon is new or full; the effects of the Sun and moon being reinforced this type of tide is of maximum range.
thermocline: A layer within a body of water or air where the temperature changes rapidly with depth.
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