What's in our water?
True or False?
Water Temperature
Vocabulary
Fun Facts
100
This type of water has no color, no smell, and no taste.
What is pure liquid water?
100
T/F: the ocean water across the whole world has the same salinity
False
100
The warmest layer of ocean water is ______.
What is surface water?
100
The amount of dissolved salt in a liquid
What is salinity?
100
Miss Rachel coaches this sport at VPHS.
Men's Volleyball
200
Ocean Water is NOT pure water. Other than dissolved gasses, the ocean water has dissolved ________. (Hint: It's the scientific name for sea salt)
What is dissolved solids?
200
T/F: Rivers bring BILLIONS of kilograms of solids into the ocean
True
200
This energy affects ocean water temperature, but can't go all the way to the bottom of the ocean.
What is solar energy/the sun?
200
The amount of particles in a space?
Density. (Extra points if you can give a real life example of density).
200
Mr. T goes to this school for college.
Chapman University
300
The ocean has A LOT of this gas, which helps control our climate (Hint: think of elements in our atmosphere)
What is carbon?
300
T/F: The ocean is ONLY useful to humans because it gives us food and fish.
False (extra points if you can share another way the ocean is useful to humans)
300
Is this an example of pack ice? (Hint: review your definition of pack ice)
NO! It is not a thin layer, the picture shows a much larger glacier.
300
A floating layer of sea ice that completely covers an area of the ocean surface
What is pack ice?
300
This day is your last day of school.
June 9
400
If a glass of water has MORE salinity, does that mean it has a HIGHER density or a LOWER density?
Higher Density
400
T/F: The ocean water is blue up until 100 meters deep because of the moon.
False (extra points if you can correct the statement)
400
This layer of the ocean is warm, but drops to low temperatures VERY quickly. (Hint: it's in the middle)
What is the thermocline?
400
Not considered deep water or surface water. It is the middle layer.
What is thermocline?
400
This person has never played a game of soccer (hint: they are in this room)
Ms. Schmitt
500
What percent of ocean water is pure water?
96.5%
500
T/F: Phytoplankton (tiny organisms) changes the color of ocean water, making it a sign that the water is healthy
True (extra points: if you can explain how it shows the water is healthy)
500
Deep water (which is cold) holds MORE gasses, making it more ________. (hint: it has more particles)
Dense
500
Elements that exist in very small amounts (just like the tiny amount of gold in ocean water)
What are trace elements?
500
Mr. T's favorite student is ________.
All of you <3