bottom part of a wave, distance between 2 bottom parts
What is trough and wave length?
100
Used to measure clarity of water
What is a secchi disk?
200
tying knots and communicating through flags
What is marlinspike and semaphore?
200
vessel that traveled to Marianas Trench during the 50's
What is the Trieste?
200
the saltiness of saltwater, measured by
What is salinity and ppt (hydrometer)?
200
reason waves curl
What is the top of the wave travels faster than the bottom of the wave?
200
difference between a dock and a pier
What is the water where you park a boat and a wooden structure that stick out perpendicular to the land?
300
3 pieces of evidence of Pangea
What is craton, fossils, glaciers?
300
First Submersible that could only hold 2 people and they were bolted in
What is Beebe's Bathysphere?
300
3 properties of water named and explained
What is surface tension, cohesion, adhesion?
300
reason why spring tides are so dramatic
What is the moon sun and earth all lined up and their pull is the highest?
300
walking from the beach to the abyssal plain (in order-5)
What is continent, continental shelf, continental break, continental slope, continental rise?
400
cause white and black chimneys
What is white and black hydrothermal smokers?
400
8 parts of a boat
What is aft, bow, stern, port, starboard, transom, hull, gunwale?
400
difference between a polar, temperate and tropical thermocline
What is polar temperature stays around 4*C, temperate starts out warmer but ends at 4*C, tropical starts out very warm and has the largest thermocline to 4*C?
400
when the top of one wave catches up to the bottom of another wave
What is wave cancellation?
400
longest mountain range on earth
What is the midocean ridge?
500
name 7 oceans/seas, 5 warm water currents, 3 cold water ones
What is atlantic, pacific, indian, artic, Mediterranean, Red sea, gulf of mexico, gulf stream, countercurrent, florida, brazil, agulhas, peru, canary, california, alaska?
500
Panamax
What is ship too large to get through the Panama Canal?
500
conveyor belt of the ocean, describe and function
What is a surface/deep water current that travels around the world into each of 3 major oceans and brings oxygen to the deep ocean.