Ocean Salinity
Ocean Water Density
Ocean Water Temperature
Marine Life
Marine Life Zones
100
chemical weathering of rocks
What is a source of dissolved substances in the ocean?
100
temperature
What is the most important factor affecting seawater density?
100
True or False. The ocean's surface water temperature varies with the amount of solar radiation received, which is primarily a function of longitude.
What is False?
100
plankton
What is drift with ocean currents?
100
abyssal zone
What is has no sunlight, extreme pressures, and sparse marine life?
200
volcanic eruptions
How do elements such as chlorine, bromine, sulfur, and boron get into the ocean?
200
salinity and temperature
What factors affect seawater density?
200
limits polar ocean productivity
What is the availability of sunlight?
200
nekton
What is move by swimming?
200
availability of sunlight, distance from shore, and water depth
What are three factors used to divide the ocean into distinct marine life zones?
300
density increases
What happens when salinity increases?
300
density increases
What is with decreasing temperature?
300
zones included in the photic zone
What is benthic, pelagic, and neritic
300
benthos organisms
What is line on or in the ocean bottom?
300
how they move and where they live
How is marine life classified?
400
evaporation and the formation of ice
What are two natural processes that increase the salinity of seawater?
400
limits productivity in tropical regions
What is lack of nutrients?
400
not used to divide the ocean into marine life zones
What is salinity?
400
phytoplankton
What is use photosynthesis to produce food?
400
where photosynthesis occurs
What is the euphotic zone?
500
sodium chloride
What makes up the majority of the salt in seawater?
500
diagram that shows certain animals have more than one food choice
What is a food web?
500
influenced by the availability of nutrients and the amount of sunlight
What is photosynthetic productivity?
500
algae
What is directly or indirectly provide food for the majority of organisms?
500
the zone where ocean and land overlap
What is the intertidal zone?
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