Ocean Facts
What is 70%?
Climate change makes Oceans levels do this
This helps movement of water on a surface level
What is wind?
The Ocean is made of this
What is Water?
The Chemical Formula of Water
What is H2O?
Atmosphere or Ocean which extends further
What is Atomosphere?
These regions are warmer than high latitudes because they receive more direct sunlight.
What are the tropics?
Movement of water that actually mixes the ocean
What is Macro-turbulence?
This percentage of Earth's total heat lies in the Ocean
What is 93%?
The further you go, the more intense this property
What is Pressure?
The pressure at the bottom of the ocean is about how many times greater than at sea level
What is 500x?
These gases trap energy at the ocean's surface that would otherwise escape
What are the greenhouse gases?
small-scale, chaotic water motion that enhances the mixing of heat
What is Micro-turbulence?
The top 50 meters of the Ocean contain as much of this as the entire atomsphere
What is Carbon?
The ocean is great at retaining heat because of this
What is Specific Heat Capacity?
The part of the ocean that contains the most heat
Earths temperature doesnt flucuate much between day and night because the ocean does this
What is heat redistribution?
An example of a current/stream that helps to mix water found off the East Coast of the Atlantic near Florida.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The 3 different properties of the Ocean
What is Heat, Carbon, and Pressure
One of the types of phenomena accounted for by the physics equations needed to model the Ocean
What is Momentum, Mass, Heat, Salt or the Equation for state?
What did Arthur Clark say about the planet in regard to the Ocean
What is "How inappropriate to call this planet earth when its cleary ocean"?
Which parts of the ocean give heat back to the atmosphere
What is the North Atlantic and the Antarctic?
Ocean winds move heat this direction
What is North Latitude?
What is the large-scale turbulence event in the tropics that occurs every 2-7 years
What is El Nino?
What is 3993 J/kg/K?