Plate Tectonics
Alfred Wegener proposed this idea.
What is continental drift?
The property of water that allows water striders, other insects, and the basilisk lizard to walk or run on water.
Molecules of water move ___________ in hot water.
What is faster?
The way in which the rotation of the earth bends the path of winds and resulting sea currents.
What is the Coriolis effect?
A time of small tidal range
What is a neap tide?
When two plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
Cold water is ______ dense than warmer water, so it _______
Cold water is MORE dense than warmer water, so it SINKS
There is ______ pressure at the bottom of the sea.
There is MORE pressure at the bottom of the sea.
Large, mostly circular systems of surface currents driven by the wind
What are gyres?
What is a spring tide?
When two plates move toward each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
The type of bonds that allow water molecules to stick together and give water its unique properties.
What are hydrogen bonds?
This wavelength of light is the first to dissipate in the ocean.
What is red?
Water molecules in a wave move in this motion.
What is a circular motion?
The layer between the photic and the aphotic zone
What is the thermocline?
The layers of the earth from the outermost layer to the innermost layer.
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
Water is the universal solvent. It is especially good at dissolving _________.
What are salts?
In a water molecule, this atom is slightly positive.
What is a hydrogen atom?
The most consistent winds on Earth that blow from east to west near the equator
What are the trade winds?
The distance between successive crests in a wave
What is the wavelength?
The differences between oceanic and continental crust.
What are composition (basalt and granite), density, and thickness?
In a water molecule, this atom is slightly negative.
What is the oxygen atom?
The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 g of a substance by 1°C.
What is specific heat?
The gently sloped, shallow section of the edge of a continent, extending from the shore to the point where the slope gets steeper
What is the continental shelf?
The name of the process in which cold, dense water sinks and displaces the water below it