SEAWATER
OCEAN LIFE
TIDEPOOLS
WAVES & TIDES
MISCELLANEOUS
100
One of the major sources of elements in seawater is this type of weathering of rocks.
What is chemical weathering?
100
Marine organisms are classified according to where they live and this factor.
What is how they move?
100
The number of zones defined for California tidepools.
What is 4?
100
The factor that gives most waves their energy and motion.
What is the wind?
100
Seawater with a low salinity and high temperature will have this density.
What is low density?
200
Location of the second major source of elements in seawater.
What is the Earth's interior?
200
Organisms that drift with the ocean currents.
What are plankton?
200
Tidepool zone found above 5 feet over sea level.
What is the splash zone?
200
The time it takes for one full wave to pass a fixed position.
What is the wave period?
200
This factor will cause the salinity of seawater to decrease?
What is precipitation (or melting sea ice)?
300
The ocean's surface temperature varies with the amount of this type of energy, which is a function of latitude.
What is solar radiation?
300
Marine animals capable of moving independently of the ocean currents by swimming or other means of propulsion.
What are nekton?
300
Tidepool zone indicated by mussels and barnacles.
What is the high tide zone?
300
Ocean tides result from differences in the gravitation pull of these two bodies.
What are the Moon and the Sun?
300
Tides with the least tidal range.
What are neap tides?
400
The two main factors that influence seawater density.
What are salinity and temperature?
400
Marine animals that live on or in the ocean bottom.
What are benthos?
400
Tidepool zone found between sea level and 2.5 feet above sea level.
What is the low tide zone?
400
Tides that have the greatest tidal range.
What are Spring Tides?
400
The ocean floor is divided into these three zones according to oceanographers.
What are the continental shelf, ocean basin floor, and mid-ocean ridge?
500
The three-layered structure of the open ocean as recognized by oceanographers.
What are the mixed zone, transition zone, and deep zone?
500
Three factors that are used to divide the ocean into distinct marine life zones.
What are availability of sunlight, distance from shore, and water depth?
500
The number of high tides and low tides in a 24 hour period.
What are 2 high tides and 2 low tides?
500
The up, down, and slightly forward and backward motion that causes objects to stay in essentially the same place when in the ocean.
What is circular orbital motion?
500
The zone of the ocean floor where new ocean crust is formed.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
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