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| waves shift sand on shores, shores constantly change |
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| Flow of water that runs close to the shore and parallel to it |
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| natural land or human made projection from land into water that prevents the beach from washing away |
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| Updrift vs Downdrift of groyne |
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| updrift enlarges a beach, downdrift moves sediment away |
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| Effect of waves on shoreline |
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| Effect of waves on steep shore zone |
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| materials in sand tells you where the beach is because the mixture is unique to that beach |
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| Human affect on shore zones |
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| people pollute with trash, sewage, and chemicals |
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| substances produced by human activities that are harmful to the environment |
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| Examples of shore zone pollution |
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| oil spills, garbage, sewage, other chemicals |
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| laws,education, and cleaning up |
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| occur when a tanker gets a leak, usually with a crash, oil wells leak |
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| kills ocean life forms like birds and fish; they suffocate |
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| How to clean up oil spills |
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| booms are used to contain them and collect the oil |
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| How are habitats destroyed? |
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| pollution kills fish and birds, houses and industry get built |
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| Reduction of zone pollution |
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| clean up trash, don't have bon fires, limit building |
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| Ocean floor exploration methods |
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| Alvin-remote submarine (1970) Nemo-plexiglass semi-submarine (1980) Sonar, sound waves bounced off the ocean floor (90's to now) |
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| Determining shape of ocean floor |
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| measuring depth in lots of places |
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| uses sound waves under water to measure distance |
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| continental shelf continental slope abyssal plain trenches rift zone mid-ocean ridges |
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| part of ocean floor nearest landmass |
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| steep slope from continental shelf to abyssal plain |
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| largest amound of area on ocean floo--flat |
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| where plates converge--creates a long narrow valley |
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| where magma oozes onto the ocean floor |
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| alongside rift zones--underwater mountains |
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| not measured directly by a person |
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| Why we use indirect evidence |
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| humans can't go deep enough into the ocean to measure because of the pressure |
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| Effects of building on shore zones |
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| causes erosion and humans pollute, disrupts habitats |
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