Unit 4: Water in Earth's Processes (Ch 11)
Across
- 2. device that determines the distance of an object under water by recording echoes of sound waves
- 3. the movement of energy through a body of water
- 4. pattern of temperature and precipitation
- 5. a large stream of moving water that flows through the oceans
- 6. an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced
- 8. mountains/volcanoes that break the ocean’s surface
- 11. the gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of the continent
- 14. total amount of dissolved salts in a water sample
- 16. movement of water and sediment down a beach caused by waves coming in to the shore at an angle
- 18. a tide with the greatest difference between high and low tides that occurs when the sun and moon are aligned with Earth at new moon and the full moon
Down
- 1. tide with the greatest difference between low and high tide that occurs when the sun and moon pull at right angles to each other at first and third quarter moons
- 2. the most abundant salt in the ocean
- 4. the effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents
- 7. a steep incline of the ocean floor leading down from the edge of the continental shelf
- 9. a smooth, nearly flat region of deep ocean floor
- 10. a rush of water that flows rapidly back to sea through a narrow opening in a sandbar
- 12. mountains that do not break the ocean’s surface. They are completely underwater
- 13. movement of cold water upward from the deep ocean that is caused by wind
- 15. a deep, steep-sided canyon in the ocean floor
- 17. the daily rise and fall of Earth's waters on its coastlines