Coastal Characteristics
Estuaries
Atlantic Marginal Seas
Pacific Marginal Seas
Indian Marginal Seas
100
What effect do high amounts of river run off have on the salinity of coastal water?
Salinity decreases.
100
The percentage of original wetland currently left in the United States
What is 50%?
100
Name two marginal seas of the Atlantic Ocean.
What are the Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Sea, and the Caribbean Sea?
100
Name two marginal seas of the Pacific Ocean.
What are the Gulf of California and the Bering Sea?
100
Name two marginal seas of the Indian Ocean.
What are the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the Red Sea?
200
What effect do prevailing offshore winds have on the salinity of coastal waters?
Salinity increases because of increased evaporation.
200
The cause of the ecological damage to the Columbia River.
What are hydroelectric dams?
200
The Loop Current dominates the surface circulation of which marginal sea?
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
200
A Pacific marginal sea containing hydrothermal vents
What is the Gulf of California?
200
This marginal sea forms the boundary between the Arabian Peninsula and Africa.
What is the Red Sea?
300
a layer of water in which the salinity changes rapidly with depth
What is the halocline?
300
The major problem experienced by the Chesapeake Bay
What is decreased oxygen causing kills of bottom-dwelling animals?
300
This sea has four major basins
What is the Caribbean Sea?
300
The continental shelf of this marginal sea is divided into three domains by its circulation patterns.
What is the Bering Sea?
300
Brine deposits can be found in the deep basins of which marginal sea?
What is the Red Sea?
400
water at all depths has the same (equal) temperature
What is isothermal?
400
Shallow estuaries in which freshwater and salt water are totally mixed from the top to the bottom of the water column
What is a vertically-mixed estuary?
400
This sea represents the remains of the ancient Tethys Sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
Which marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean is located on an active divergent plate boundary?
What is the Gulf of California?
400
Which marginal sea is strongly influenced by inflow from the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers?
What is the Bay of Bengal?
500
An example of a coastal geostrophic current
What is the Davidson Current?
500
a long, narrow, deep U-shaped inlet that usually represents the seaward end of a submerged glacial valley
What is a fjord?
500
The name for the circulation pattern when ocean water enters a marginal sea ABOVE the flow of saltier marginal sea water.
What is Mediterranean circulation?
500
The result of the seasonal wind patterns in the Gulf of California
What is coastal upwelling and high biological productivity?
500
Which two marginal seas have circulation patterns dominated by monsoon circulation?
What are the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea?
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