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The ratio of the mass of dissolved substances to the mass of the water sample?
What is Salinity
Animals capable of moving independently of ocean currents.
What are nekton animals?
Organisms that live on or in the ocean bottom.
What are benthic animals?
Open ocean of any depth.
What is the Pelagic zone?
Narrow sandbars parallel to, but separated from the coast at distances 3-30km offshore.
What are barrier islands?
Regular changes in the elevation of the ocean surface
What are oceanic tides?
Jellyfish and phytoplankton
What are plankton?
Sharks, trumpetfish and barracuda
Types of nektic animals.
The production of organic compounds from inorganic substances through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
What is Primary productivity?
When the moon and sun are at a 90 degree angle which makes the tidal range less.
What is a neap tide?
Icebergs, runoff, sea ice and evaporation
What are processes that affect the salinity of seawater?
Marine organisms are classified according to these two things.
Where do they live and how they move?
Lobster and sea urchins
Types of benthic animals.
The process by which certain microorganisms produce organic molecules from inorganic nutrients using chemical energy.
What is chemosynthesis?
This current flows parallel to the shore and moves large amounts of sediment along the shore.
What is longshore transport?
The layer of ocean water between 300-1000 meters where there is a rapid change of temperature with depth.
What is a thermocline?
The tides that have the greatest tidal range due to the alignment of the Earth, moon and sun.
What are Spring Tides?
The part of the ocean into which sunlight penetrates.
What is the photic zone?
In temperate regions, which are found at mid-latitudes, seasonal changes influence levels of sunlight and nutrient supply which, in turn, influence productivity.
What is the Productivity in temperate oceans?
A narrow coastal land formation that is tied to the coast at one end.
What is a spit?
The ocean's surface water temperature is affected by the amount of solar radiation received, which is primarily due to this...
What is latitude?
The layer of ocean water between about 300 meters and 1000 meters where there is a rapid change of density.
What is a pycnocline?
The area where the land and ocean meet and overlap.
What is the Intertidal zone?
Smaller carnivores are eaten by larger carnivores, and so on.
What are trophic levels?
This geological feature is formed when a cave continues to be eroded and expanded until it cuts right through the rock.
What is a Sea Arches?
The time it takes one full wave to pass a fixed position
What is a wavelength?
A ridge of sand that connects an island to the mainland or to another island.
What is a tombolo?
These result from the cutting action of the surf against the base of coastal land
What are Wave cut cliffs?
These wooden features stabilize shores to prevent erosion.
What are groins?
A phenomenon where circulating air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis effect?