Water, Water Everywhere
In Genesis 1, the Creation day on which God gathered the waters together and called them seas.
What is Day 3?
Primary mineral that makes up thicker, less dense crust.
What is granite?
Large, circular oceanic surface currents driven mostly by winds.
What is a gyre?
Gently-sloped shallow section of continental edge, extending from shore to a steep "drop off" slope.
What is the continental shelf?
Creation day when God lowered ocean basins and raised continental dry ground.
What is Day 3?
Three major ions found in seawater.
What are Na+, Cl-, and SO4-2 ions?
Study of the movements of the earth's crust.
What is Plate Tectonics?
Caused by the rotation of the earth under the atmosphere, resulting in winds and sea currents.
What is the Coriolis effect.
A continuous chain of underwater volcanic mountains.
Most abundant element in the core of the earth.
What is Iron?
These five interconnected bodies of water cover over 70% of the Earth's surface.(1)
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans
Movement of cold ocean-floor rock that slides vertically into the upper mantle along the edge of most continents, producing trenches and coastal volcanoes.
What is subduction?
Gravitationally driven movements of the oceans with springy highs and neapy lows.
What are ocean tides?
Truly, the bottom of the sea. Dark, cold, barren stretches of oceanic crust.
What is the abyssal plain?
Caused by movements in the material of the molten outer core of the earth.
Earth's Magnetic Field
This interaction between H20 molecules results in many of water's interesting properties.
What is hydrogen bonding?
RAPID movements of the earth's crust during the Genesis Flood that produced the earth's present geography of continents and oceans
Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
A process in which deep, cold water rising toward the surface brings up nutrient-rich water from the bottom.
What is upwelling?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
What is oxygen?
Three unique properties of water.
What are Surface tension, high specific heat, present in all three phases on earth, solid phase more dense than liquid phase, universal solvent?
Movement of ocean crust that produces rifts, ocean ridges, and new basaltic rock.
What is seafloor spreading
Vertical, density-driven ocean currents are mostly driven by these two factors.
What are salinity and temperature?
Deepest oceanic topography, caused by plates diving into the mantle.
What are trenches?
Slow-flowing material that makes up the mantle.
What is magma, or plasticized rock?