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Name the technique scientist use to measure the depth of the ocean
What is Sonar (4)
100
Daily double What are two factors that affect the density of water? Describe water found in the deep currents of the ocean
What is Salinity and temperature (6) Cold with high salinity (27)
100
Ocean zone that lies beneath the continental shelf
What is sublittoral zone (8)
100
Water that returns to the ocean through channels in underwater sandbars
What is rip tide
100
Distance from crest to crest or trough to trough of a wave
What is wave length
200
DDT and lead can cause problems in the ________
What is food chain
200
What causes the Coriolis effect?
What is the rotation of the Earth (36)
200
The most valuable resource taken from the ocean
What is Petroleum that lies beneath the ocean floor (25)
200
Global wind located just north and south of the equator
What is Trade winds
200
Distance that wind can travel over open water
What is fetch
300
Caused by underwater landslides
What is turbidity current (10)
300
Daily double The time it takes for one complete wavelength to pass a fixed point How is wave speed calculated?
What is Wave period (11) wavespeed = wavelength/wave period (28)
300
Manganese is a valuable resource found in the ocean water in the form of
What is nodules (24)
300
Regulates nearly all ocean life
What is the life process of plants (23)
300
Daily double Zone of rapid temperature change that begins just below the surface of the ocean Explain a subduction zone
What is thermocline (22) region where one lithospheric plate moves under another (17)
400
In ocean water, density differences produce
What is deep currents (35)
400
Gravitational attraction of the sun and moon create this ocean movement
What is tides (30)
400
The direction water particles, in a wave, in deep water move
What is circular motion (29)
400
The reason Earth is called the water planet
What is It is the only planet with a covering of liquid water (31)
400
Name the highest and lowest part of a wave
What is crest(highest) and trough(lowest) (13, 14)
500
A submerged volcanic mountain at least 1000m high
What is Seamount (18)
500
Begins at the shoreline
What is Continental shelf (16)
500
Name the ocean that is part of all three major oceans
What is Antarctic Ocean (19)
500
Name the three principle dissolved gases in ocean water; which of the three dissolves most easily in ocean water
What is nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide; carbon dioxide (20)
500
The overall pattern movement of surface currents in the Southern Hemisphere
What is counter-clockwise (34) In the northern hemisphere the movement is clock-wise
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