Vocabulary
A measure of the quantity of dissolved solids in ocean water.
What is salinity?
A substance which is able to dissolve other substances.
What is solvent?
Is the factor most responsible for changes in density.
What is temperature?
The process where one lithospheric plate slides below another at a convergent plate boundary.
What is subduction?
Sudden releases of energy on the seabed, either through an earthquake or a volcanic eruption can lead to this.
What is a tsunami?
Water that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface as rain, sleet, snow or hail.
What is precipitation?
A measure of the mass of a defined volume of water.
What is density?
Irregular changes in the speed and direction of fluid movement.
What is turbulence?
A theory supporting the possibility that continents are able to move over Earth's surface.
What is continental drift?
Are flat deep areas of the ocean floor that are essentially featureless.
What is abyssal plains?
The flow of water from land cause by precipitation.
What is run-off?
A strong force of attraction holding atoms together in a substance.
What is bond?
Factors contributing to the concentration of gases in seawater.
What is gas solubility, water temperature, Atmospheric pressure, water pressure due to depth, and the salinity of the seawater?
It's the revised theory of continental drifts; this new theory suggests that the lithosphere is broken into sections.
What is plate tectonics?
The wearing down or breaking of rocks through physical, chemical or organic means.
What is weathering?
A change in state from liquid to gas below the boiling point of a substance.
What is evaporation?
Chemical bond that involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.
What is covalent bond?
"As temperature and salinity increase, the concentration of DO decreases"
DO stands for:
What is dissolved oxygen?
Its extreme salinity makes it inhospitable for most life forms.
What is the Dead Sea?
The periodic rise and fall of the surface of the ocean resulting from the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun.
What is tide?
When a body of water has a salinity level greater than 40%
What is hypersaline?
The heat required to raise the temperature of the unit mass of a given substance by one degree Celsius.
What is specific heat capacity?
It states that the relative proportions of the major salts in seawater remain constant, regardless of the overall salinity.
What is the principle of constant proportion?
Is considered to be the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. Located in the Middle East in the Jordan Rift Valley.
What is the Dead Sea?
The difference in height between the high-tide mark and the low-tide mark over the course of a day.
What is tidal range?