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Vocabulary Word List: 20 words: aquatic, biodiversity, bioluminescence, brackish, continental shelf, disphotic zone, ecosystem, estuary, florescence, hurricane, intertidal, maritime, nautical, oceanographic, organism, plankton, sediment, submerge, substrate, tsunami
Absorb, Abundance, Abyssal plain, Accelerate, Adaptation, Affect, Aground, Algae, Anchor, Animals, Aphotic, Aquanaut, Aquatic, Arctic, Arctic ocean, Argosy, Assess, Atlantic, Atmosphere, Atoll
Bacteria, Balance, Bar, Barge, Barrier reef, Basalt, Basin, Bathyscaphe, Bathysphere, Bays, Beach, Bends, Beneath, Benthos, Birds, Bivalves, Boatyard, Body of water, Bottom, Bounty, Breakers, Breaking, Breakwater, Brine, Buoy
Changing, Cliff, Climate, Coastline, Collide, Commerce, Communication, Community, Conch, Conquest, Contamination, Continent, Continental crust, Continental shelf, Coral, Creature, Crustacean, Current, Cycle
Data, Deep, Delicate, Deposit, Depth, Desalt, Destructive, Discovery, Dissolve, Distance, Diversity, Diving, Dock, Documentation, Domain, Dredge, Drift, Dumping ground, Dunes, Dwell, Dynamic
Echinoderm, Ecosystem, Effect, Elements, Endangered, Energy, Erosion, Estuary, Excursion, Exploration
Facilities, Features, Feeding, Fertilizer, Fishing, Fjord, Float, Florescence, Flourish, Fluctuation, Fluid, Food chain, Force
Giant, Global warming, Globe, Gravitational pull, Gravity, Gulf, Guyot, Gyre
Habitat, Hadal, Harness, Heave, Hemisphere, Host, Houseboat, Hurricane
Iceberg, Imperiled, Incoming, Indian, Industry, Influences, Inquiry, Interaction, Interdependence, Invasive, Invertebrate, Islands
Jetsam
Kelp, Kinetic, Knot, Krill
Lagoon, Land, Lap, Larvae, Layers, Level, Leviathan, Life, Light, Lightening, Limit, Liquid, Living
Magma, Majesty, Mangrove, Mapping, Marine, Maritime, Marsh, Mid-ocean, Migration, Mix, Mollusk, Momentum, Monitor, Motion, Movement, Murky
Naturalist, Nautical, Navigation, Neap tide, Nekton, Numbers, Nutrient
Ocean, Oceanic, Oceanography, Offshore, Oozes, Operation, Organism, Outgoing, Overfishing, Oxygen
Pacific, Pattern, Peaceful, Pearl, Pelagic, Phenomena, Phytoplankton, Planet, Plankton, Plants, Plate tectonics, Pollutant, Pound, Predator, Prediction, Pressure, Prey, Production, Products, Protection, Purify
Quantity, Quest
Realm, Recreation, Recreation, Reef, Renewal, Research, Reserves, Resource, Restoration, Rhythm, Ria, Ridges, Riptide, River rat
Safety, Sailing, Salinity, Salty, Sand, Science, Scientist, Scuba, Sea, Sea creature, Sea floor, Seascape, Seasonal, Seawater, Seaweed, Secrets, Sediment, Seismic, Sextant, Shallow, Shells, Shelter, Ship-to-shore, Ships, Shoreline, Skeleton, Slope, Sonar, Sound, Species, Sponge, Squid, Storms, Strength, Submarine, Submerge, Supply, Surface, Surfing, Surge, Survival, Swell
Technology, Teeming, Temperature, Terrace, Thrive, Tidal wave, Tide, Transportation, Trench, Trough, Tsunami, Turbulence
Ubiquitous, Undertow, Underwater, Unique, Universal, Unlimited, Upwelling
Valley, Vapor, Variation, Vast, Velocity, Volcano, Volt
Warm, Wash up, Water, Watery, Waves, Weather, Whaling, Wind
Yacht, Yawl
Zigzag, Zone, Zooplankton
Oceans and Marine Lesson Plan and discussion ideas from www.myvocabulary.com
1. How do reefs form?
2. In what ways do scientists try to continue/repair our oceans and their resources?
3. Discuss and give details about the differences between the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans
4. Study life forms such as plankton, nekton, benthos and the food cycle in oceans
5. List at last eight benefits of the ocean and give explanations for your choices
6. Research early explorers and explorations
7. What effects does the ocean have on climate?
8. Give many reasons why the ocean is such a valuable resource