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11 Cards in this Set
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Because all of the oceans are _______________ oceanographers sometimes say that the earth only has one ocean.
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connected
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Removing salt from seawater
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desalinate
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The four general divisions of the earth's oceans
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Atlantic
Pacific Indian Arctic |
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The parts of the ocean that are mostly surrounded by land
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seas
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For ________________ oceanographers usually divided the world into 3 or 4 major parts
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convenience
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the flat, deep sea plain floors
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abyssal
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Cannot be done when considering the importance of the oceans
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overemphasize
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Form of "sounding" used to measure ocean depths
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echo
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submerged islands
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seamounts
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a ring of low coral islands and reefs surrounding a central lagoon
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atoll
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Draw, color, and label a diagram of a generalized topography of the ocean floor showing (these terms will be on the quiz): abyssal plain, trench, seamount, continent, continental rise, continental slope, guyot, submarine canyon, island, and continental shelf
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Textbook page 486
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