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Ocean terms and definitions
All questions and answers from this set. Questions about structure of oceanic bed and shore as well as effects affecting oceanic waters.
Questions: 20
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Question 16
A large stream of moving water that flows through the oceans. Currents carry water from one place to another.
Ocean Current
Question 17
Movement of energy through a body of water.
wave
Question 18
A piece of land that has been created from active volcanoes in the ocean. An island is surrounded by water completely.
volcanic Island
Question 19
The shore is the land at the edge of the ocean. This land also extends inland from the shore line.
coastal plain
Question 20
A long, deep valley on the ocean floor
Ocean trench