Water
The total amount of salt dissolved in a solvent
What is salinity?
All of the major currents of the ocean are driven by this force
What is the wind?
This portion of the earth’s crust primarily contains basalt
What is the oceanic crust?
This is a continuous chain of underwater volcanic mountains encompassing the earth
What is the Mid-ocean range?
It’s because of this that there is more sea life in the continental shelf region of the ocean than in the abyssal plain
What is sunlight?
Higher salinity increases water’s ________
What is density?
The ________ in the Northern Atlantic brings warm water to the central east coast of the United States
What is a gyre?
This portion of the earth’s crust primarily contains granite
What is the continental crust?
This is the downward movement of 1 plate into the earth's mantle when 2 plates collide
What is subduction?
Less sunlight in the water means there will be less of this
What is sealife?
Lower ________ increase water’s density
What is temperature?
The ________ in the Northern Atlantic brings cold, arctic water to the mid European coast
What is a gyre?
Between Oceanic and Continental crust, this one is more dense
What is Oceanic?
For mantle material to rise up, cool, and become new oceanic crust this must occur
What is 2 plates of the earth's crust move away from each other?
This tidal range(tide) is the LARGEST due to the combined effects of the gravitational pulls of the aligned sun and moon
What is the Spring Tide?
This ocean keeps all of the oceans interconnected
What is the Southern Ocean?
Large, mostly circular systems of surface currents driven by wind
What are gyres
Between Oceanic and Continental crust, this one is thicker
What is continental?
Newly created oceanic crust is also called new this
What is new seafloor?
This is the smallest tidal range(tide) due to the gravitational pulls of the sun and moon working at right angles to one another
What is a neap tide?
This is one of the many benefits that the hydrogen bonds of water provide to marine organisms
What are:
1) keeping the boiling point and freezing point of water from being too low
2) making ice less dense than liquid water causing it to float and keeping organisms below the ice alive
3) causes water to have a high specific heat preventing extreme fluctuations in water temperature
4) dissolving a large number of solvents including salt
The way in which the rotation of the earth bends the path of winds and resulting sea currents
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This crust floats lower on the semi-plastic mantle
What is the oceanic crust?
This crust is underwater because it is denser than continental crust and floats lower on the semi-plastic mantle
What is oceanic crust?
This is the name of the part of the ocean separating the surface layer from the deep layer
What is the thermocline?