Earths Oceans
This ocean is the largest and deepest ocean in the world.
What is The Pacific Ocean?
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The cause of pollution.
What is humans on land?
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Scientist divided the oceans in three distinct regions called what?
What is the surface zone, middle zone, and deep zone?
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What is a cause of coral bleaching?
What is increasing temperatures?
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The energy transfers to water will form waves.
What is wind energy?
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The ocean between Africa, India, and the Indonesian Islands.
What is the Indian Ocean ?
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Name one way the ocean organisms can pass chemical wast through the ocean
What is the food chain ?
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Where dose the surface zone begin
What is about 200m?
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As the Earth warms, its glaciers and ice sheets melt this adds water to the oceans and increases _______.
What is sea level ?
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During a storm in 1990 how many pairs of shoes were fell off a cargo ship.
What is 40,000?
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when was the start of the formation of the Oceans
What is 4.2 billion years ago ?
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As oil spills into the oceans it harms what three ecosystem.
What is physical, chemical, and biological ?
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What is another name for the deep zone called ?
What is the midnight zone ?
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The temperature of seawater affects the amount of _______ dissolved in it.
What is O2?
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Surface currents carry warm and cold water _________ across the oceans surface.
What is horizontally?
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As the moves through out the water cycle water vapor in the atmosphere cools and condenses into.
What is a liquid ?
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Excess nitrates that wash into the oceans can cause harmful _________ which kills fish.
What is algal bloom ?
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The cause for plants not grow in the deep zone.
What is no sunlight ?
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The _____ the water, the less O2 it contains.
What is Warmer the water ?
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Gyres Earth's oceans contain large__________
systems of surface currents.
What is looped ?
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Earth's water continually evaporates from the ocean and returns to the ocean though.
What is the water cycle ?
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Sediment from ________ washing into the ocean.
What is orange colored soil ?
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As the oceans have zones of light they also have zones of .
What is temperatures, salinity, and density vary with depth ?
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CO2 and O2 are exchanged at the ______.
What is oceans surface ?
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The shape of continents and Other landmasses affect the ______ and _____ of currents.
What is direction and speed ?
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