Ocean basins and plate tectonics
What is the central part of the Earth below the mantle?
Core!
What is water due to its polarity and ability to dissolve many different solutes
Universal solvent!!
What is an organisms that make their own food using light energy.
photosynthetic
What is a root-like structure that anchors a seaweed.
Blade
What is the layer of the earth between the crust and the core ¨semi plastic¨ and moves due to convection.
Mantle!!
What is water sticks to water. property of water!
Cohesion!!
What is a unicellular photosynthetic alga with two flagella situated in perpendicular grooves in cellulose plates covering the cell.
Dinoflagellate
What is any of various large, tough, brown seaweeds found in cold waters
Kelp
What is a gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of a continent. Holds the greatest biodiversity in the ocean.
Continental Shelf
Coriolis Effect
What is a protozoan with a shell generally made of silica and pseudopodia that radiate from the central body.
Radiolarians
What is a colored chemical compound that absorbs light, producing color.
Pigment
What is the tendancy for hot material to rise and cooler material to sink, causing a cycle that transfers heat.
Convection
What is the circular motion of water in each of the major ocean basins.
Gyre
What is an animal like protists.
Protozoan
What is Salt-tolerant plant
Halophyte
What is the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations.
Continental Drift
The degree of compactness of a substance.
d=m/v
Density
What is protozoans, often microscopic, with a calcium carbonate shell.
Foraminiferans
What is a flowering plant that produces seeds within a fruit.
Angiosperm