The oceans are divided into zones base on these four physical characteristics. Name 3
What are sunlight, temperature, density, and salinity?
100
The highest point of a wave is called __________.
What is the crest?
100
Ocean tides result largely from the gravitational attraction of this.
What is the moon?
100
In certain zones there is no light and organisms produce light using chemicals in a process called ____________.
What is bioluminescence?
200
These are large looped systems of surface currents in our oceans. There are 5 of them.
What are Gyres?
200
This is our smallest and shallowest ocean that is located near the North Pole and is covered by ice for part of the year .
What is the Artic Ocean?
200
This is the lowest part of a wave.
What is a trough?
200
The difference between high tide and low tide.
What is Tidal Range?
200
What type of water is more dense, cold or warm?
What is cold?
300
This is the movement of wind and water to the right or left that is caused by the Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis effect
300
This is our largest and deepest ocean and is larger than all the Earth's continental land mass put together.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
The number of waves that pass a point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
300
During a full moon or a new moon, these types of tides are present.
What is Spring Tides?
300
What water is more dense, salt water or fresh water
What is salt water?
400
This deep (density) current moves water downward and later brings dissolved nutrients to the ocean's surface by this.
What is upwelling?
400
Ocean Salinity changes by ________________ the deeper you travel into the ocean.
What is decreasing?
The top layer is saltier than the lower layers since it evaporates faster at the surface leaving it saltier than the lower layers.
400
The distance from one crest to another or from one trough to another.
What is wavelength?
400
During quarter moon, these types of tides are seen.
What are Neap Tides?
400
This ocean zone receives the most sunlight, and most of the organisms that perform _____________ are located here.
What is photosynthesis?
500
The direction of gyres in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is counter-clockwise?
500
The movement of warm or cold surface currents around the Earth, affects the ________ of an area by warming or cooling the air.
What is climate?
500
The amount of energy a wave carries. It is measured from resting point to crest
What is amplitude?
500
What kind of tide is represented when there is one bulge on one the side of the earth that is facing the moon and another bulge on the side of the earth facing away from the moon caused by the gravitation force between the two of them?
What is high tide?
500
In order from top to bottom, what are the 5 different ocean zones that have studied by depth.
What are the sunlit zone, twilight zone, dark zone, abyssal zone, trenches?