This type of bonding is responsible for many of water's unique properties
What is Hydrogen Bonding
100
Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
What is the tallest mountain on Earth?
100
This describes a particular environment where biotic and abiotic factors influence each other.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Before World War II scientists thought the sea floor was shaped like one of these household items.
What is a bowl?
100
This is the name of the supercontinent that existed approximately 255 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
200
A measure of dissolved salts in water
What is Salinity?
200
Refers to the area around the ocean floor.
What is benthic?
200
A type of resource that renews itself within a relatively short period of time.
What is a renewable resource?
200
The scientific term for the shape, or topography, of the seafloor.
What is bathymetry?
200
He is the German scientist that developed the Theory of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
300
The Hydrogens and Oxygen in water are bound by this special type of chemical bond.
What is a Polar Covalent Bond?
300
This ocean zone is in water 200m or less, just over the Continental Shelf.
What is the Neritic Zone?
300
This is a marine ecosystem found in cool, clear waters with rocky bottoms.
What is a kelp forest?
300
This type of technology developed in WWII is the main way that scientists can map the sea floor.
What is SONAR?
300
This process by which one, younger and more dense, tectonic plates slides under an older and more dense plate, is responsible for the development of ocean trenches.
What is subduction?
400
This happens to the temperature of water as it undergoes a phase change from liquid to gas.
What is it remains the same?
400
This is the seafloor feature that connects the Continental Shelf to the Abyssal Plain.
What is the Continental Slope?
400
This describes how species move in, occupy a particular niche, and replace each other until a stable community is established after a disturbance.
What is biological succession?
400
Before SONAR this was the technology scientists use to gauge the ocean's depth.
What is a Sounding Line (or Plumb Line)?
400
This type of plate interaction is responsible for the lifting of the Himalayan Mountains.
What is convergence (or specifically, continental-continental plate convergence)?
500
This happens to the density of water when it holds a salt in solution.
What is it becomes more dense?
500
This is the longest geological feature on earth.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
500
These are protected areas of ocean established that allow us to directly study migratory patterns of marine mammals.
What are National Marine Sanctuaries?
500
In addition to multi-beam SONAR, side-scan SONAR, ROVs and other submersibles, this type of modern technology is used to provide an image of the seafloor.
What are satellites?
500
The Earth's crust and the outer, solid portion of the Earth's mantle make up tectonic plates which move due to convection currents in this, semi-liquid, inner portion of the Earth's mantle.