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13 Cards in this Set
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Salinity
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the total amount of dissolved salts in a sample of water
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Sonar
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SOund NAvigation and Ranging
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Wavelength
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The horizontal distance between crests
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Wave height
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The vertical distance from the crest to the trough
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Longshore Drift
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The movement of sand along the beach
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Rip current
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In some places, water breaks down the sloping and begins to flow back down the sloping ocean bottom
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Intertidal Zone
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begins at the highest high-tide line on land
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Neritic Zone
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Extends from the low-tideline out to the edge of the continental shelf
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open-ocean zone
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Beyond the edge of the continental shelf lies the open-ocean zone
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Plankton
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Tiny algae and animals that float in the water and are carried by waves and currents
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Nekton
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Free-swimming animals that can move throughout the water column
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Benthos
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organisms that inhabit the ocean floor
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Food Web
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All the feeding relationships that exist in a habitat make up a food web
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