Unique Nature of Pure Water
Marine organisms are mostly _____ (by weight).
What is water?
Light level, pressure, and transmission of light and sound are _______ properties.
What is fundamental?
_____ is one chemical property of the ocean.
What is salinity?
Carbon dioxide is turned into organic compounds by _____.
What is photosynthesis?
What is the first layer, commonly called the sunlight zone?
What is the epipelagic zone?
Molecules are the result of two or more atoms bonded _______.
What is chemically?
Water is relatively ______.
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Salinity is the total amount of _____ dissolved in water.
What is salt?
_______ by consumers, decomposers, and producers break down the organic compounds.
What is respiration?
What is the second layer known as the twilight zone?
What is the mesopelagic zone?
Each water molecule has slight positive and negative _________ charges.
What is electrical?
What is sued to measure water clarity?
What is a Seechi Disk?
seawater tastes like salt because of what 2 ions?
What are sodium and chloride?
Rising CO2 levels affect the ____ of the ocean.
What is chemistry?
What is the third layer known as the midnight zone?
What is the bathypelagic zone?
The attraction of one water molecule to another is known as _______ ________.
What is hydrogen bonding?
What color light penetrates the deepest in the ocean?
What is blue?
What ions come from rivers?
What are sodium, potassium, and magnesium.
The average PH of the ocean is ____.
What is 8.0-8.3?
What is the fourth layer also known as the lower midnight zone?
What is the abyssopelagic zone?
Heat is the total kinetic energy of all the _____ in a substance or object.
What are particles?
Pressure ______ dramatically with ocean depth.
What is increases?
The average salinity of the ocean is about __%
What is 35%?
Species affected by ocean acidification span the entire _____.
What is the ocean?
What is the fifth layer known as the trenches?
What is the hadalpelagic zone?