Water Properties
The property of water where water is attracted to other water
What is cohesion?
What is used to measure water clarity?
What is a secchi disk?
The amount of salt in the water?
What is salinity?
Where is CO2 entering the ocean?
What is at the surface?
The transition layer where temperature decreases rapidly with depth?
What is the thermocline?
What type of bonds hold a single water molecule together?
What are covalent bonds?
The type of light that penetrates the deepest making everything this color?
What is blue?
What is the average salinity of the ocean?
What is 35 ppt?
CO2 that lowers pH in seawater is known as this?
What is ocean acidification?
90% of fish live in this zone?
What is epipelagic?
What type of bonds are responsible for surface tension, allowing a bug to sit on water?
What are hydrogen bonds?
An organism that lives in the first 6 feet of water is under how much pressure?
What is 2 atm?
What 2 ions compose 85% of the material dissolved in sea water?
What is sodium and chloride?
What is the average pH of the ocean?
The deepest of all ocean zones, caused by trenches.
What is hadal zone?
What is extremely unusual when water is a solid?
What is it is less dense/floats
How fast does water travel underwater?
What is 4.5 times faster than on air/ 1520 m/s?
Name 2 circumstances that could cause a slightly lower salinity of ocean water?
What is glaciers or icebergs melting, heavy rainfall, rivers flowing into ocean?
What type of organisms are hindered by ocean acidification?
What are animals with shells, skeletons, that need calcium carbonate?
The layer of the ocean known as the Twilight zone. Host the largest vertical migration on earth.
What is Mesopelagic?
From what source(s) do sodium, potassium, and magnesium ions enter the oceans?
What is rivers?
Where does low frequency sound travel thousands of km underwater, allowing whales to communicate?
What is the Deep Sound Channel?
This important material feeds deep-sea organisms on its way from shallow ocean to depths?
What is marine snow?
CO2 can react with H2O in the ocean to form what compound?
What is Carbonic acid?
This ocean zone (from 1000m-4000m) only has light produced by bioluminescent animals?
What is bathypelagic zone?