Vocab

2. a mountain rising from the ocean floor that has not reached the surface of the water and is not considered an island
5. underwater mountains formed by a divergent plate boundary
7. white crystal salt soluble in water that is gotten from seawater and mineral deposits
11. the area between the continental slope and the abyssal plain
12. a region of rapid changing temperature
14. the deepest part of the ocean
15. a plain on deep ocean floor that lies generally between the continental rise and mid-ocean ridge
16. the slope that starts at the outer edge of the continental shelf and ends at the ocean floor
17. how much salt water contains

1. a powerful, warm current that originates at the tip of Florida
3. the area around a continent that is more shallow than the open ocean
4. method for detecting submerged objects
6. a current deep in the ocean caused by density
8. when subsurface cold, denser water replaces warm, less dense surface water
9. a valley formed by a continental- continental convergent boundary
10. the removal or extraction of salt from water to make it drinkable
13. the direction of ocean water flowing that depends on the wind and earth’s rotation