Ocean Info
This amount of Earth's water is found in the oceans.
How much is 97.5%?
This is the zone of the ocean that encompasses the range from the surface to a depth of about 200 meters.
What is the Epipelagic Zone?
This is the mechanism that causes the currents we talked about in class.
What is wind?
This is the main cause of tides.
What is the Moon?
This is the number of oceans present on Earth.
What is four?
This is why oceans are not freshwater.
What is salt?
This is the natural area the zones of the ocean are compared to.
What is the atmosphere?
This is the amount of global heat transfer done through currents.
How much is 40%?
This is a characteristic that can determine how many tide cycles a day an area can experience.
What is the shape of the coastline?
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What is the sea floor elevation?
This is the smallest ocean by surface area.
What is the Southern Ocean?
This is considered the "saltiest" ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This is the nickname given to the Bathypelagic Zone.
What is the "Midnight Zone"?
This current is the most significant to us in this region of the United States.
What is the gulf stream?
This celestial body has a measurable, though significantly weaker than the moon, impact on tides.
What is the Sun?
This ocean is home to the Mariana Trench.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
During this year, the newest ocean was defined.
What is the year 2000?
This is what the Greeks believed that led to the Abyssopelagic Zone receiving its nickname.
What is that it had no bottom?
This is what determines which way current will flow.
What is temperature/pressure imbalance of wind?
This type of tide describes a phenomenon that is defined by a greater than normal tidal range.
What is a spring tide?
This is the percentage of the Earth that is covered by the Pacific Ocean.
How much is 44% - 48%?
This body of water is closely related to oceans in its water composition and naming convention, but is not actually associated with oceans at all.
What is the Dead Sea?
This is a transitional layer of the ocean, known for its rapid decrease in temperature.
What is the Thermocline?
This is the second type of currents I mentioned, but did not go in depth on.
What are deep water currents?
This kind of tide cycle describes when an area has one high tide and one low tide per day.
What is a diurnal tide cycle?
This is the latitude line that defines the border of the Southern Ocean.
What is 60 degrees south?