JEOPARDY

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JEOPARDY Science Oceanography Jeopardy Game!
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• The Water Cycle
• The Ocean Floor
• Waves, Currents Tides
• Miscellaneous

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Waves, Currents Tides
The Water Cycle
The Ocean Floor
Miscellaneous
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When water changes from a liquid to a gas
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What is evaporation?
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When water changes from a gas to a liquid.
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What is condensation?
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Water droplets that fall from the clouds because
they are too heavy to stay in the air
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What is precipitation?
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When water evaporates, condenses to make clouds,
and precipitates back to the earth
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What is the water cycle?
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This is the percentage of water found in the
worlds oceans?
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What is 96 ?
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The name of the ocean floor in the shore zone
(where the ocean meets the land).
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What is the continental shelf?
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When you travel from the continental shelf down a
steep slope, you find this large flat area
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What is the abyssal plain?
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In some places, the ocean floor drops thousands
of kilometers to form this
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What is a trench?
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The largest mountain range in the world that
rises up from the ocean floor
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What is the mid-ocean ridge?
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The place where land meets the ocean.
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What is the shore-zone?
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What is the most common salt in the ocean?
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What is sodium chloride?
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A large group of waves, usually found during a
hurricane is called?
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What is a storm surge?
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Steady winds cause the ocean to flow in paths
like rivers which are called this
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What surface currents?
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This current is caused by differences in
saltiness or water temperature.
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What is a deep-ocean current?
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Name one place where the mid-ocean ridge rises
above the oceans surface.
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What is a surface current?
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The area of the oceans that is the richest in
resources.
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What is the shore zone?
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The thing that has the greatest effect on
changing tides.
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What is the pull of the moons gravity?
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When denser water flows beneath less dense water
in the ocean, this is created.
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What is a deep ocean current?
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This forms when two of the Earths plate collide
on the ocean floor, and one goes beneath the other
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What is a trench?
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What is one resource found in the shore zone?
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What are fish, oils, fertilizers, or salt?
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The Impact of Weather on the Ocean
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This is what you would expect to see on the beach
(shoreline) after a hurricane.
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The waves of a storm surge are stronger than
normal waves, so you might expect the shore to be
eroded (or possibly even completely gone).