Ocean Floor Features
This is what happens to the temperature as the depth increases.
What is the temperature decreases.
Do the currents affect the mixing of ocean waters?
What is yes.
Is there salt in all the oceans?
What is yes.
This organism eats all the dead matter and waste in the ocean.
What is a decomposer?
This is what happens to the depth of water when the temperature increases.
What is depth decreases.
These are the bulging of the Earth's ocean waters due to the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon.
What are tides?
Made up of living and nonliving things.
What is an ecosystem?
The pressure increases as the temperature ...
What is the temperature decreases.
The eastern shores of the US have warm water during the summer because of the trade winds and this current.
What is the Gulf Stream current?
Phytoplankton is very important to the ecosystem. It makes its own food, therefore it is considered this.
What is a producer?
As ocean depth increases, the pressure ...
These type of currents are caused by wind and have a horizontal movement.
What are surface currents?
The salinity does this the deeper down in the ocean you go.
What is increase?
The arrows in a food web show this.
What is the way of the energy flow?
This happens to density as the temperature increases.
What is decreases?
Circular arrow patterns on the map represent this.
What are currents?
In an experiment, this variable is the one that I change.
What is the independent variable?
Organisms that eat only plants are called this.
What are herbivores?