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100
pH of the Ocean
What is 8?
100
Name for compounds that do not contain carbon
What is inorganic?
100
Two chemicals that make up the ocean
What are water and salt?
100
Boiling point for water in Kelvin
What is 373 K?
100
Study of compounds that come from living matter
What is organic chemistry?
200
Water moves into and out of sea creatures by this process
What is osmosis (or drinking)?
200
Some CO2 is given back off to the atmosphere through this process
What is respiration?
200
CO2 dissolved in ocean water is used by these creatures
What are plankton?
200
Name for bonds between water molecules
What are hydrogen bonds?
200
Oceans are vital to the earth given their role in the removal of this gas
What is CO2?
300
The continuous flow of elements and compounds between organisms and the earth
What is the biogeochemical cycle?
300
Increases in CO2 levels in the ocean lead to the breakdown of this compound found in shells
What is CaCO3?
300
As part of the carbon cycle, carbon dissolves into the surface ocean from the atmosphere and is used for this process
What is photosynthesis?
300
Most important metal to marine life
What is iron?
300
Dissolved minerals and salts come from this ocean feature
What are hydrothermal vents?
400
Applies organic chemistry to the study of living things, useful in studying divergent species
What is biochemistry?
400
Salt is excreted from fish through these two body parts
What are skin and gills?
400
Example of a primary consumer in the ocean
What are zooplankton?
400
Dictates the amount of force needed to move objects through water
What is viscosity?
400
The ocean plays a role in the biogeochemical cycle for these two elements
What are carbon and nitrogen?
500
The biogeochemical cycle involves the movement of elements and compounds among the these three regions
What are land, air and oceans? (also organisms)
500
Global warming could cause coral to expel these symbiotic creatures
What are algae?
500
The salinity of water is this many parts per thousand
What is 35?
500
Na+ and Cl- make up this many percent of dissolved salts in seawater
What is 85%?
500
Name the five Great Lakes
What are Huron, Superior, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario?
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