Biology
Northern elephant seals come ashore in the spring and summer to do what?
What is molting?
defined as mass per unit volume, this property is a useful means of identifying rocks and minerals.
What is density?
The name of Ms. Nesheim's son is this oceanic feature
Who is Bearing
This part of the tidal cycle has minimal current
what is a slack tide?
Sodium and chloride alone comprise approximately this percent of the total salts in the ocean
what is 90% of salt
These organisms at the bottom of the food chain that form at hydrothermal vents due to their ability to convert carbon and other nutrients into organic matter in the absence of sunlight
What is Chemosynthetic bacteria?
Lithospheric plates come together at this type of plate boundary
What are convergent winds?
Ms. Nesheims husband teaches these subjects
What are Spanish and finance and investment
In this zone, temperature rapidly changes with depth
What is the thermocline zone?
Carbon dioxide in the air being absorbed by the ocean causes what?
what is Ocean acidification
Lophelia coral reefs in the North Atlantic are primarily damaged by this
What is trolling?
Most of the sand on tropical islands are made of this substance
What are calcium carbonate shell fragments?
this U.S. state borders the most ocean
what is alaska?
a pycnocline is a significant change in this
what is density?
This chemical is the principal source of energy at many of the earths hydrothermal vent systems
What is hydrogen sulfide?
Intensive agriculture of this organism contributed to the loss of mangroves around the world
What are shrimp?
The approximate age of the oldest oceanic crust
What is 180 million years?
The name of the Whalefest team 2025
Who are the Hemagoblin sharks?
in temperate zones the thermocline will be most pronounced at this time of year
what is summer?
the amount of heat required to raise the tempature of a substance 1 degree C is this
The growth of this organism causes poisoning to be apparent in many shellfish locally
what is algae?
what percent of the worlds fresh water is held in the Great Lakes?
what is 20%?
Ms. Nesheim has been a teacher for this long
what is 5 years?
This term is defined by sigma-t
what is the density of seawater?
the energy represented by the latent heat o melting is being used to do this
what is breaking hydrogen bonds?