'Continental slope' presentation slideshows

The Ocean Floor

The Ocean Floor. Seeing by SONAR. SO und N avigation A nd R anging A ship sends sound waves to the ocean floor. The sound waves bounce off the floor and back to the ship. The deeper the water, the longer it takes for the sound waves to return.

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Continental Margins and Ocean Basins

Continental Margins and Ocean Basins. Continental Margins. Continental margins facing the edge of diverging plate boundaries are called passive margins. There is relatively little earthquake or volcanic activity associated with these margins.

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Continental Margins & Ocean Basins

Continental Margins & Ocean Basins. Bathymetry: The Study of Ocean Floor Contours. Early bathymetric studies were often performed using a weighted line to measure the depth of the ocean floor. Advances in Bathymetry ? Echo sounding ? Multibeam Systems ? Satellite Altimetry.

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Aquatic Biomes

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Oceanography

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The Ocean Floor

The Ocean Floor. Studying the Ocean Floor. Scientists use sonar to determine the oceans depth The sound moves through the water, bounces off the ocean floor, and returns to the ship. Ocean Basins. Ocean basins are low areas of Earth that are filled with water

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Salt Water vs. Fresh Water

Salt Water vs. Fresh Water. Make a hypothesis about salt water and fresh water. Make a prediction in words and pictures about what will happen when you pour salt water into fresh water. SLOWLY, pour the colored salt water into the fresh water. Record what happens in words and pictures.

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Ocean Topography

Ocean Topography. t opo= a place graphy= write. Why do we care?. Curiosity Understanding oceanic life Understanding natural disasters like : tsunami, earthquakes Locating natural resources. Ocean Topography.

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Question 1

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Ocean Floor

Brainpop Underwater World Ocean Floor. Ocean Floor. The Ocean Floor. Oceanographers discovered the shape of the ocean floor by measuring the depth of the floor in many places. Early tools included lead weights lowered on ropes or cables to the ocean floor.

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Earth Systems 3209

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Life on the Ocean

Life on the Ocean. Chapter 13. We can define each part of the ocean on the basis of the following characteristics: temperature amount of light currents salinity nutrient supply water depth nature of the sediment on the bottom. Biomes. Assemblage of organism,

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Layers Of The Ocean

Layers Of The Ocean. 1. Epipelagic Zone. 5. Continental Slope. 2. Continental Shelf. 6. Abyssopelagic Zone. 3. Mesopelagic Zone. 7. Continental Rise . 4. Bathypelagic Zone. 8. Ocean Basin. 9. Hadalpelagic Zone. Quiz. Video. Epipelagic Zone (The Sunlight Zone). 0-600 feet

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Ocean Floor 13.2

Ocean Floor 13.2. Shoreline. Where water and land meet. Continental Shelf. Begins at the shoreline and slopes gently toward the open ocean It continues until the ocean floor begins to slope more steeply downward. Continental Slope. Begins at the edge of the continental shelf

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Echinoderms

Echinoderms. Phylum Echinodermata. Echinos means hedgehog, derma means skin Includes: Sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, sand dollars, sea lillies 6,000 marine species Radial symmetry based on five sections or projections. Defined by a water-vascular system.

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Oceans Vocabulary

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Ocean basins

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Quiz on Ocean Floor

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Illustrated Ocean Zonation Poster

Illustrated Ocean Zonation Poster. Zones Include: Epipelagic (sunlight) Mesopelagic (twilight) Bathypelagic (Midnight) Abyssalpelagic (the Abyss) Hadalpelagic (trenches) Continental Shelf Continental Rise Continental Slope Basin Intertidal Neritic Oceanic Pelagic.

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