Vocabulary
Properties of Water
Motions of the Ocean
Ocean Life/Zones & Other Water Questions
Plates and Other
100
"Cold"
What do we typically call less heat?
100
Solid, liquid, gas
What are the three states of matter?
100
These two factors affect the density of water
What are temperature and salinity?
100
These are three factors that affect what can live in different zones in the ocean
What are the amount of sunlight, pressure, salinity and temperature?
100
You put the rock in the water and the water goes up is scientifically called this.
What is displacement?
200
The state of balance
What is equilibrium?
200
These are the molecules that make up water.
What are two hydrogens and one oxygen?
200
These are the factors that affect the size of waves
What is the strength of the wind, the duration of the wind, and the distance it is carried?
200
Bioluminesence
What adaptation do fish in the deep zone have to lure their prey to them?
200
When we did the dance, this is actually simulating
What is Sea Floor Spreading?
300
Nothing is created or destroyed, just rearranged.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
300
75%, 97%, 68%
What is the percentage of Earth covered in water, the amount of that water which is salt water, and the amount of fresh water trapped in glaciers?
300
This is affected by the Moon's gravitational pull.
What are tides?
300
We made Ginger Ale and did the Incredible Journey to demonstrate this process
What is the Water Cycle?
300
These are part of the Earth’s crust broken into pieces- under the ocean and under land
What are plates?
400
This involved thin, dense oceanic plates bending under thick, less dense continental plates- forming mountains and volcanoes.
What is subduction?
400
How motion of a state is changed
What is the increase or transfer of the amount of heat?
400
Underwater earthquakes cause these to happen.
What are tsunamis?
400
This is why it rains more at the Equator.
What is the amount of direct sunlight that influences the rate of evaporation?
400
This is the part of the Earth that the frosting represented in our snack tectonics model
What is the aesthenosphere?
500
Heat rises, gravity sucks.
What is convection?
500
Surface tension
How do water molecules stick together through the forces of attraction?
500
These flow in one direction and are responsible for carrying water to different places on Earth.
What are currents?
500
This is the name of the process that the eggs underwent to achieve equilibrium.
What is diffusion?
500
The Dead Sea demonstrates these two processes
What are evaporation and how salinity affects life?
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