The scientific study of oceans and oceanic phenomena
What is oceanography
100
What are the oceans in order from smallest to biggest
Artic ocean, Indian Ocean, Atlantic ocean, and Pacific Ocean
100
What causes surface circulations
Prevailing winds
100
What causese tides
Gravitational attraction from the moon and a little from the sun
100
What is the atmosphere composed of give percentages
Nitrogen 78%
Oxygen 21%
Everything else 1%
200
The gently slopping surface at the base of a continental
slope
What is continental rise
200
What maps topography of the ocean and what are the tools used to mesure it
Bathymetry. Sonar, satellites, & submersible
200
What are the 5 main gyre
North pacific, south pacific, north atlantic,south atlantic, indian ocean
200
Name the 2 sea structures and how the occur
Sea arch- rock that gets eroded selectively by surf
Sea stack- when sea srch collapses and leaves an isolated remmant
200
How many oxygen atoms are in the ozone?
3
300
The large circular surface current pattern found in each ocean
What is a gyre
300
What is the continental margin and tell the order
The area around the continents thats underwater. Continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise
300
True or false.
The coriolis effect causes surface currents to turn
True
300
What is an example of a barrier island
Outerbanks
300
What are primary pollutants? And give an example of a secondary source
Primary polllutants- air pollutants that are emitted directly from identifiable source
Acid rain
400
The daily change in the elevation of the ocean surface
What is a tide
400
What is one of the most famous deep ocean trenchs and what is the deepest part of that trench
The mariana trench & the challenger deep
400
What causes water to be denser?
Decrease in temperature and increase in salinity
400
What are the 3 parts of a beach and describe them
Surf- turbulent water created by breaking waves
Swash-water moving up the beach past the surf zone near the shore
Backwash- where the energy from the swash has expanded and flows back down towards the surf zone
What important things does upwelling bring to the surface
Warm water& dissolved nutrients
500
What do waves transfer? In what way do waves move in at the surface and what way do they move in under the water?
Energy. Transverse. Longitudial
500
At night land gets cooler faster and water cools slower. The warm air rises and goes over the land so it cools the air that was replaced by the warm air goes over the water and warms. What is this an exmple of