The chemical formula for pure water
What is H20?
The amount of dissolved salt in the seawater
What is Salinity?
The two elements that make up water
What is Hydrogen and Oxygen?
A gas that oceans absorb from the atmosphere
What is Carbon Dioxide?
The zone that is closest to the sun
What is the Epipelagic zone?
The property that allows water to reset temperature
What is Specific heat capacity?
The average salinity of ocean water
What is 3.5%?
The most abundant dissolved salt ion in seawater
What is Chloride ions?
The process where oceans absorb carbon dioxide
What is ocean acidification?
The deepest zone out of all five
What is the Hadal zone?
The reason solid water can float on liquid water
What is Density?
What happens to the water pressure as depth increases
What is pressure increas?
What is sodium?
The acid that forms when carbon dioxide dissolves
What is Carbonic acid?
The zone that is from 1000-4000 meters deep
What is the Bathypelagic zone?
The type of bond causes water's uneven charge
What is Polar covalent bonds
Why is cold, salty seawater denser than warm, fresh seawater
What is density?
The reason seawater conducts electricity better than pure water
What is Dissolved ions?