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| A device that determines the distance of an object underwater by recording echoes of sound waves |
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| a gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of a continent. |
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| a steep incline of the ocean floor leading down from the edge of the continental shelf |
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| a smooth, nearly flat region of the deep ocean floor |
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| mountains whose peaks do not break the surface of the ocean water above them |
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| an undersea mountain chain her new ocean floor is produced |
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| a deep, steep sided canyon in the ocean floor |
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| An area that stretches from the highest high tide line on land to the point on the continental shelf exposed by the lowest tide. |
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| The area of the ocean that extends from the low tide line out to the edge of the continental shelf |
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| The deepest, darkest area of the ocean beyond the edge of the continental shelf. |
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| Movement of energy throughout a body of water |
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| the highest part of a wave |
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| the horizontal distance between the crest of one wave and the crest of the next wave |
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| the number of waves that pass a specific point in a given amount of time |
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| the vertical distance from the crest of the wave to the trough |
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| white capped waves that crash into the shore |
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| a giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor |
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| The movement of water and sediment down a beach caused by waves coming into a shore at an angle |
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| a rush of water that flows rapidly back to sea through a narrow opening at an sandbar |
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| A wall made of rocks or concrete that is built outward from a beach to reduce erosion |
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| the daily rise and fall of earths waters on its coastline |
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| A tide with the greatest difference between high tide and low tide that occurs when the sun and moon are aligned with earth at the new moon and the full moon. |
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| a tide with the least difference between high tide and low tide that occurs when the sun and moon pulls at right angles to each other at the firsthand third quarter moons |
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| the movement of huge amounts of water |
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| the total amount of dissolved salts in a water sample |
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| an underwater vehicle built of strong materials to resist pressure |
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| a large stream of moving water that flows through the oceans |
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| the effect of earths rotation on the direction of winds and currents |
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| the average, year after year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area |
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| a climate event the occurs every two to seven years in the pacific ocean,during which winds shift and push warm water towards the coast of south america |
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| a type of current that makes the cold water sink and the warm water rise |
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| the movement of cold water upward from the deep ocean that is caused by wind |
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