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The study of the floors and margins of the oceans. also explore the ocean floor and the processes that form its mountains, canyons, and valleys
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| study plants and animals in the marine environment |
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| study the physical conditions and physical processes within the ocean such as (waves, currents, eddies, gyres and tides; the transport of sand on and off beaches; coastal erosion;) and the interactions of the atmosphere and the ocean |
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| the first expedition to circumnavigate to the globe |
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| inventor and politican best known as one of the founding fathers of the u.s. he chartted the gulf stream |
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| study the ocean; discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography |
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| greek and roman contributions |
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discover that ocean have currents
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zone of the ocean floor that separates thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust
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the geologically part of the continental crust
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the slope between the outer edge of the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor
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found between the continental slope and the abyssal plain
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the lowest layer of the ocean
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| where the continental margings end |
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| example subarine mountian |
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| a long chain of sesmically active mountian ranges |
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| large elongated depression formed by the downward displacement between faults or faults systems |
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| transition between oceanic and continental crust which is not an active plate margin |
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| convergent boundary also knowns as a destructive plate boundary |
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| A system using transmitted and reflected underwater sound waves to detect and locate submerged objects or measure the distance to the floor of a body of water |
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| ocean waters from the low tide mark |
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Evaporation
precipitation
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