Geological Oceanography
Chemical Oceanography
Meteorological Oceanography
Physical Oceanography
Biological Oceanography
100
71 %
What is percent of Earth's surface is covered with water?
100
Na, Cl, Mg, S
What are the elements that cause salinity?
100
Very warm ocean water
What is essential for hurricane formation?
100
35 PPT (Parts Per Thousand)
What is the average salinity of the ocean?
100
Benthos
What is the community of animals living on the sea floor?
200
Mid-ocean Rift valley
What is the volcanic engine for plate tectonics?
200
Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide
What are the major gases in the ocean?
200
Storm surge
What do hurricane force winds push upon the shoreline?
200
Current
What is the surface movement of water?
200
Nekton
What are swimming animals in the sea called?
300
Mauna Kea
What is the world's highest mountain?
300
H2O - Water
What is the most abundant compound on the Earth's surface?
300
Sea waves
What ocean waves are called in the area of their creation?
300
Circulation
What is the underwater movement of water?
300
Calcium Carbonate
What is used by ocean animals to make shells?
400
36,000 feet
What is the deepest depth of the ocean?
400
Evaporation
What process of water going from liquid to vapor is called?
400
Swell waves
What ocean waves are called outside the formation area?
400
Tsunami
What is caused by an earthquake on the ocean floor?
400
Plankton
What are the ocean's drifting animals called?
500
Sand
What does ocean waves breaking upon the shore turn rocks into?
500
Essential for life on Earth
What is water?
500
Equatorial ocean
Where are the warmest ocean waters?
500
Tide
What is the rise and fall of ocean water due to the Sun, Moon, and Earth's rotation?
500
Bottom members of ocean food chain
What is plankton?
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