Chemistry
pH
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Overview
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100
This kind of water contains buffers
What is sea water?
100
As the pH decreases, this increases
What is the concentration of CO2?
100
Although it is unclear, this finned variety of animals generally does not benefit from an increased CO2 level.
What is Feeesh?
100
The side of the pH scale that seawater falls on.
What is Basic?
100
The capital of Massachusetts
What is Boston?
200
As the concentration of this molecule increases, the acidity increases
What is CO2?
200
A solution resistant to change when acids or bases are added to it.
What is a buffer?
200
This is what shells are made of. (CaCaO2)
What is Calcium Carbonate?
200
The burning of these releases more CO2 into the atmosphere than ever.
What are Fossil Fuels?
200
Falmouth Baseball Team's Name.
What are the Commodores?
300
This type of solution donates hydrogen atoms
What is an acid?
300
The season with the lowest concentration in the water
What is summer?
300
This type of plant benefits from the rise in ocean acidity
What is algae?
300
Ocean acidification is rising in conjunction with this other global trend caused by more fossil fuels being burned.
What is Global Warming?
300
This institute, founded in 1930, is a leading force in Oceanographic Research.
What is Woods Hole Oceanographic?
400
The capacity of a solution to neutralize an acid
What is alkalinity?
400
This vegetables juice can be used to indicate pH.
What is Cabbage
400
Most animals in this sub-phylum benefit in the short term from the rise in Ocean acidification by growing larger, more protective shells
What are crustaceans?
400
After this landmark time in the world, ocean acidification has taken off at an alarming rate.
What is the Industrial Revolution.
400
The correct plural of platypus.
What is platypodes?
500
This molecule is broken down by ocean acidification.
CaCo3
500
The phrase that pH stands for
What is Power of hydrogen.
500
Carbon dioxide dissolves in seawater to form this, which is detrimental to almost all sea life in the long run.
What is Carbonic Acid?
500
Species with stronger ones of these are better at clearing H+ ions from their shell building sites.
What are proton pumps?
500
Carls last name.
What is Herzog?
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