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| a shelf that is on a gental slope that survs away from the contennent |
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| a slope that drifts way from the contenant that is on more of a 90 degre angle. |
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| the contalnetal rise is a sloped peice of land just below the contenetal slope that is not quite as steep as the contenetal slope |
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| is the bottom of the ocean (also called the ocean floor) |
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| a seamount is an underwater valcano |
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| as the lava builds up from the underwater volcanos it makes one of these |
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| over time with waves pounding at the volcanic island it erosion happens to the motant lava and it becomes a goyot (under water island |
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| the are deep valleys that are caused by rivers that cut there way through making valleys or canyons |
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| are when 2 plates hit and one gose under annother one causing trenches (these over time can create earthquecks) |
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| is an area surrounding by high elavation land is which all water runs to a comman destionation |
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| follows the crest of the rockeys and seperates water flowing from the west and pacifac ocean from the north and east |
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| are masses of ice and snow built up over thousands of years the accour only in cold climets |
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| ice brakes and makes deep crevasses |
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| are small begining of glacers where ice snow and freeze thew |
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| when 2 or more ciques come together |
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| when 3 or more aretes come together and make a peramid shape |
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| when a small glacer meets a large one it creates a hanging valley (also called a frozen waterfall) |
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| when a u valley lies lises below sea level |
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| are large open feilds that may be signs of glacers |
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| are long snake like mounds of sand and gravle that mark the way of meltwater |
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| when a glacer erodes it is easy for it to do it to sand stone but much harder to with hard rocks such as granet. it leaves smooth grooves called strations |
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| when a boulder/rock gets left abandond in a feild left from glacers |
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an iceberg is a block of ice that has frozen over they can be vary big under water too
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| a current is a movement of water in a curcular motion (as the earth rotates this happens) |
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are bu=ig currents the five main ones ar
- Indian Ocean Gyre
- North Atlantic Gyre
- North Pacific Gyre
- South Atlantic Gyre
- South Pacific Gyre
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| a mesure of a substances copacity to keep its heat |
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| the wether average over meany years |
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water releses heat slow then land so at night it gets colder more inland but stays warm near the ocean |
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| durring the day water heats up slower so this resalts in colder days and warmer nights for bc |
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| vary big waves caused by underwater rockslids, earthqecks, and volcanic activitys |
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| hapen 2 times a day (2 in 2 out) these hapen when the gravatational pull of the moon and sun bulges the water |
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| when the gravatational pull of the earth and the sun that makes the water balge |
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