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OCEANIC Lithosphere

OCEANIC Lithosphere. Where are the Oceans?. PREDICT : What percent of the earth is covered in water? What percent is land? Explain your prediction. PREDICT :What percent of the earth’s water is salt? What percent is fresh? Explain your prediction. Identify the Oceans of the World.

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OCEANIC Lithosphere

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  1. OCEANIC Lithosphere

  2. Where are the Oceans?

  3. PREDICT: What percent of the earth is covered in water? What percent is land? Explain your prediction.

  4. PREDICT:What percent of the earth’s water is salt? What percent is fresh? Explain your prediction.

  5. Identify the Oceans of the World

  6. Area(1,000,000 km²) Volume(1,000,000 km³) Average Depth(m) Maximum Depth(m) Atlantic Ocean 82.4 323.6 3926 9200 Pacific Ocean 165.2 707.6 4282 11,022 Indian Ocean 73.4 291.0 3963 7460 Arctic Ocean 14.1 17.0 1205 4300 World Ocean Facts

  7. Features of the Ocean Floor

  8. Salinity • A measure of the amount of dissolved salts in a given amount of liquid

  9. Estuary • A place where fresh & salt water meet.

  10. shoreline • The point where land meets the water

  11. Continental shelf • Sloping shelf of land that is made of the edges of the continent • The continental shelf regions also contain the highest amount of benthic life (plants and animals that live on the ocean floor).

  12. Continental Edge • The part of the continental shelf that begins to angle sharply down

  13. Continental Slope • The steep cliff like drop from the continental edge to the ocean floor that connects the continental shelf and the oceanic crust • It usually begins at 430 feet (130 meters) depth and can be up to 20 km wide.

  14. Continental rise • Lower part of the continental slope which extends to the ocean floor

  15. Abyssal Plain • The broad flat ocean bottom

  16. Trenches • Deepest parts of the ocean created by the undersea rivers and currents • The deepest one, the Marianas Trench in the South Pacific Ocean, is more than 35,000 feet (10,668 meters), or almost 6.6 miles (10.6 kilometers) deep.

  17. Mid-Ocean Ridge • A chain of mountains under the sea • The world’s longest mountain range. It runs almost unbroken for 40,000 miles.

  18. Rift Valley • Large crack that runs down the middle of the Mid-Ocean Ridge

  19. Seamounts • An underwater mountain formed by a volcano • Most seamounts began life as volcanoes formed over hot spots in the ocean floor. After the crust moves off the hot spot, the volcanic activity stops.

  20. Guyots • Seamounts whose peaks have eroded and become a flat surface are called guyots • Inactive volcanoes on the ocean floor

  21. Atoll • As the seamount sinks or its peak erodes, the seamount will disappear beneath the water leaving the coral ring. This is called an atoll.

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