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  The mass flow of ocean water that is driven by wind or gravity is referred to as ocean ____.

 How can a satellite sense the contours of the ocean bottom from space?

 Humid air is ____ than dry air because molecules of water vapor ____ than molecules of nitrogen and oxygen at the same temperature.

 The amount of dissolved oxygen that seawater can hold in solution will be greater in ____.

  The ocean is stratified with respect to ____.

   Roughly how fast do most lithospheric plates move?

 Near shore, waves with a wavelength of 200 feet will “feel” bottom when the depth is about ____.

  Why don’t tall mountains in the continental crust sink and disappear into the partially melted asthenosphere?

The type of plate boundary can be determined by evaluating the depths of earthquakes. What seismic trend would occur at ocean–continent convergent boundaries?

   Where is the widest continental shelf located?