8.E.1.2 Vocabulary

Are bodies of water found in areas where freshwater from rivers and streams and salt water from the ocean meet.

Ocean zones can be determined by their distance from shoreline and water depths

Movement of nutrient-rich bottom water to the ocean's surface. This can occur far from shore but usually occurs along certain steep coastal areas where the surface layer of ocean water is pushed away from shore and replaced by cold, nutrient-rich bottom water.

Plants use the sun's energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars

Process by which some organisms, such as certain bacteria, use chemical energy to produce carbohydrates

A measure of the amount of dissolved salts in a given amount of liquid

organisms (plants and animals) that live at or near the bottom of a sea

A continuous range of mountains on the ocean floor that winds around Earth.

A deep, steep-sided canyon in the ocean floor.

A gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of a continent.

A lump on the ocean floor that forms when metals such as manganese build up around pieces of shell.

A process by which new rock is added to the ocean floor along the boundary between diverging plates.

A ring-shaped coral reef that surrounds a shallow lagoon.

A smooth, nearly flat region of the deep ocean floor.

A steep incline of the ocean floor leading down from the edge of the continental shelf.