Unique Nature of Pure Water
The only substance that naturally occurs in all 3 states on Earth-solid, liquid, and gas.
What is water?
They shape life in the oceans.
What are the physical properties of seawater?
The total amount of salt dissolved in water.
What is salinity?
The process by which plants convert light energy, water, and carbon dioxide into glucose and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
There are about 5 main of these in the ocean.
What are the layers of the ocean?
The attraction of one water molecule to another.
What are hydrogen bonds?
It penetrates the deepest in the ocean out of all colors.
What is blue light?
A continuous shower of organic and inorganic material that falls from the upper ocean waters to the deep-sea floor.
What is ”marine snow?”
This is converted into organic compounds by photosynthesis (glucose.)
What is carbon dioxide?
Most commonly called the Sunlight Zone, it receives more light than the other layers, as well as more plants and animals.
What is the epipelagic zone?
There are two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen chemically bonded together.
What are water molecules?
A naturally-occurring ocean “channel” that allows sound to carry great distances.
What is SOFAR?
It is about 35%
What is the average salinity of the ocean?
The pH of the ocean drops and the ocean becomes less alkaline.
What is acidification?
The deepest and most unknown layer in the ocean.
What is the hadal zone?
The measure of the elastic tendency of liquids.
What is surface tension?
It is used to measure water clarity.
What is the secchi disk?
The result of the addition or removal of pure water.
What are variations to ocean salinity?
A chemical reaction between a fuel and an oxidant that produces heat, light, and chemical byproducts.
What is combustion?
It is extremely dark and temperatures are very cold. It the the largest environment on Earth.
What is the abyssopelagic zone?
The amount of energy, or heat, it takes to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit.)
What is a calorie?
They are used for communication, navigation, reproduction, and predator and prey detection.
What are the uses of sound for marine animals?
It depends on the temperature and salinity.
What is the density of seawater?
It is 8.0-8.3.
What is the average pH of the ocean?
This is about 1000m-4000m.
What is the bathypelagic zone?