Across
- 3. submerged volcanoes or hills
- 4. level. an always changing height of the oceans surface
- 6. the oceans saltiness
- 7. shelf. a gentle slope that moves into the water
- 10. canyon. a sediment rich canyon
- 12. cycle. a procces at the surface of the earth with huge resovoirs of carbon worldwide
- 14. large section of an ocean surrounded by land or islands
- 17. slope. a sharp slope/drop off from shallower to deep water
- 19. A ring of low coral islands and reefs surrounded by a central lagoon
- 21. an ever changing place that extends underwater beyond the shore
Down
- 1. plain. the flat sea floor, also know as ____
- 2. rise. a smooth transition from the continental slope to the deep flat ocen
- 5. cycle. ensures that there is a continuis supply of nitrogen
- 8. reef. form from animals, important marine geologic features
- 9. ocean ridge. submerged mountain ranges
- 10. a strip of land that separates the coast from ocean
- 11. sea level is the zero height used to find elevation
- 13. organism. bottom dwelling animals
- 15. ark. long curved strings of islands
- 16. large body's of water that cover over 70% of the globe
- 18. trench. where subduction has occured, steep slope
- 20. organism. things that dont liv eon the ground