Vocabulary words for Chapter 13 The Ocean Floor: abyssal plain, accretionary wedge, active continental margin, bathymetry, continental margin, continental rise, continental shelf, continental slope, deep-ocean basin, deep-ocean trench, deep-sea fan, echo sounder, guyot, oceanic plateau, seamount, seismic reflection profile, sonar

Vocabulary words for Chapter 13 Oceanic Ridge: black fmokers, buoyant subduction, continental rift, mid-ocean ridge, ophiolite complex, passive continental margin, pillow basalts, rift valley, rift zone, sheeted dike complex, supercontinent cycle

Vocabulary words for Chapter 20 Coastal Zone: abrasion, backshore, beach, beach drift, beach face, berm, coast, coastline, fetch, foreshore, longshore current, nearshore, zone, offshore, zone, shore, shoreline, surf, wave height, wave period, wavelength, wave refraction

Vocabulary words for Chapter 20 Shoreline Features: barrier island, baymouth bar, marine terrace, sea arch, sea stack, spit, tombolo, wave-cut cliff, wave-cut platform

Vocabulary words for Chapter 20 Stabilizing the Shore: beach nourishment, breakwater, emergent coast, estuary, groin, hard stabilization, jetty, seawall, submergent coast

Vocabulary words for Chapter 20 Tides: diurnal tidal pattern, ebb current, flood current, mixed tidal pattern, neap tide, semidiurnal tidal pattern, spring tide, tidal current, tidal delta, tidal flats, tide

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