Unique Nature of Pure Water
In the water molecule (H20) what atoms are chemically bonded together?
What is two atoms oh hydrogen and one atom of oxygen?
What are the three basic physical properties of seawater?
What is Temperature, salinity and density?
What is Salinity?
Salinity is the total amount of salt dissolved in water.
Rising CO2 levels affect _______.
What is chemistry of the ocean?
Where does carbon start and as what? What happened next?
What is the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and then it dissolves in the ocean at the surface?
Define surface tension.
What is the measure of the elastic tendency of liquids?
How deep is one ATM?
What is 10 m?
The density of seawater depends on ________.
What is temperature and salinity?
What ions are needed by organisms to build and maintain shells and other structures?
What is carbonate ions?
Types of respirators.
What is consumers, decomposers, and producers?
Define heat.
What is the total kinetic energy of all the particles in a substances, measured in calories?
What is SOFAR?
What is a naturally-occurring ocean "channel" that allows sound to carry great distances
What is the most common ions in saltwater?
What is sodium and chloride?
Effects of Ocean Acidification.
What is organisms have more trouble making shells and other calcium-containing structures?
In a body of water, the floating layer of ice does what to the body below it?
What is the ice insulates the water below it?
How does depth effect sea temperature?
What is sun does not shine deep into the ocea?
Proportions of salt composition can vary where?
What is near hydrothermal vents where rivers flow into the ocean and where there is intense biological activity?
Where do ions dissolved in seawater come from?
What is chemical weathering of rocks on land, materials from Earth’s interior, and materials released into the atmosphere by volcanoes?
Define Thermocline.
What is a temperature change between the warm waters of the surface ocean and the cold waters of deep ocean?
Define Marine Snow.
What is trace elements removed from the ocean when they are incorporated into sinking particles?
How does it differs from climate change?
What is climate change is the warm temperatures and ocean acidification is increasing acidity due to absorbed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?