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Chapter 10 Study Guide

  1. What are the 5 major oceans of Earth?
  2. What is a subduction zone?
  3. Define sea level
  4. Define ocean floor
  5. What are bathymetric map? How/why could we use them?
  6. What is echo sounding? How do we use it?
  7. Define continental shelf
  8. Define continental slope
  9. Define continental rise
  10. Define abyssal plain
  11. What are deep ocean trenches?
  12. What are mid-ocean ridges?
  13. What are ocean currents?
  14. What do ocean currents transport?
  15. How do the oceans collect large amounts of energy?
  16. What are surface currents?
  17. How is heat balanced by the oceans?
  18. What is the Coriolis effect? What does it do to the currents?
  19. Define salinity.
  20. How does salinity affect density?
  21. Define gyre.
  22. What influences surface water the most?
  23. The strongest and deepest currents are found on the ______sides of the gyres. These currents are called ______currents.
  1. The biggest of these western boundary currents is the ______, which is part of the North Atlantic Gyre.
  1. Give some information about the Antarctic Circumpolar Currents.
  1. El Nino and La Nina

El Nino / La Nina
Cause
Effect
  1. Define Shore
  2. Define shoreline
  3. What are the effects of wine and waves?
  4. What 2 factors influence shoreline erosion by wind and waves? Explain.
  5. Explain deposition at the shoreline
  6. Define longshore current
  7. Explain the process of longshore drift.
  8. What are rip currents
  9. How does human activity affect beaches? Explain
  10. Define sand
  11. Rocks that are smaller than sand are called ______and ______.
  12. Explain where sand comes from? How does it get there?
  13. What are the effects of sand deposits
  14. Why are beaches called temporary features?

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