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- 3. Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water.
- 6. a long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore.
- 7. Plankton are the diverse collection of organisms found in water that are unable to propel themselves against a current.
- 8. the action or process of precipitating a substance from a solution.
- 13. the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch.
- 15. Nekton are living organisms that are able to swim and move independently of currents.
- 17. a rising of seawater, magma, or other liquid.
- 18. the exhalation of water vapor through the stomata.
- 20. Condensation is the process where water vapor becomes liquid.
- 22. the slope between the outer edge of the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor.
- 24. flow over and away from a surface.
- 25. any single identifiable source of pollution from which pollutants are discharged, such as a pipe, ditch, ship or factory smokestack.
- 27. a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water known as a shelf sea.
- 28. An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3,000 metres and 6,000 metres.
- 29. a seamount with a flat top.
- 31. The intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore or seashore, is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide. This area can include several types of habitats with various species of life, such as seastars, sea urchins, and many species of coral.
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- 1. Nonpoint source pollution can include: Excess fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides from agricultural lands and residential areas.
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- 4. Geologically, a high island or volcanic island is an island of volcanic origin.
- 5. Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase.
- 9. a body of water or air moving in a definite direction, especially through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement.
- 10. the assemblage of organisms inhabiting the seafloor.
- 11. the distance between successive crests of a wave, especially points in a sound wave or electromagnetic wave.
- 12. Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
- 14. A watershed is the area of land where all of the water that drains off of it goes into the same place.
- 16. A mid-ocean ridge is a seafloor mountain system formed by plate tectonics.
- 19. the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.
- 20. A continental rise is a wide, gentle incline from a deep ocean plain to a continental slope.
- 21. land consisting of marshes or swamps; saturated land.
- 23. a long ditch or dip in the seafloor
- 26. Wave height is the vertical distance between the crest and the trough of a wave.
- 30. Seamounts are underwater mountains that rise hundreds or thousands of feet from the seafloor.