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vast body of salt water that separates the continents
a large section of ocean that is mostly surrounded by land or islands
(2 words) level of the sea's surface at a particular place and time; changes with rising and falling tides
(3 words) calculated average height of high and low tides in particular location
strip of land bounded by the lowest and highest tides that separates the coastal region from the ocean
portion of the coast that is shaped by sea level and wave action; includes the berm, the shore, and any longshore bars produced by breaking waves
(2 words) shallow, submerged edge of continents extending from the beach
(2 words) steeper incline from the lip of the continental shelf into the deep ocean basin
(2 words) underwater erosional feature often found in a continental slope that seems to have been formed by turbidity currents
(2 words) thick deposit of loose sediments that creates a transition from the continental slope to the deep, relatively flat ocean floor
(2 words) relatively flat, deep floor of an ocean basin
a submerged mountain; most appear to be extinct volcanoes rising from the abyssal plain
(2 words) deep, relatively narrow troughs in the ocean floor found in subduction zones adjacent to convergent plate boundaries
(2 words) long, curved string of volcanic islands formed by submarine volcanoes along the margins of converging tectonic plates
(2 words)massive underwater geologic feature that forms in relatively shallow tropical waters from the secretions of coral polyp colonies
ring of low coral islands and reefs surrounding a central lagoon
amount of dissolved salts in water from any source
(2 words) animal or plant that lives on or is anchored to the ocean bottom

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Marine Ch. 1-2

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Sea Floor Features

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The Ocean Floor

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