organisms
Type of algae to use red wavelengths of light in shallow water...
What are green algae?
Name of the equatorial zone where evaporation is greatest due to a solar surplus.
What is ITCZ?
Breezy phenomena where air heats up over land more easily than water in the morning
What is a sea breeze?
The bending of light and sound through water...
What is refraction?
Largest western boundary current that transport heat to higher latitudes.
What is the Gulf Stream?
pyncocline, halocline, thermocline
What are different layers of the ocean?
Photosynthesizing siliceous microorganism attracted to upwelling...
What are diatoms?
Name of winds that add O2 to water and cause water to become extremely cold at polar regions
What are Katabatic winds?
Of the dangers associated with hurricanes, this one involves the rise in sea level...
What is storm surge?
The transitional depth at which ocean water rapidly becomes colder...
What is the thermocline?
The strongest current in the world
What is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current?
CO2, H2O(vapor), CH4
What are green house gases?
Fish that reproduce in the Sargasso Sea...
What are the American Eel?
Vertical equatorial winds are known as these...
What are the Doldrums?
These non-cyclonic extreme storms travel with the migration of the ITCZ
What are monsoons?
Measures water saltiness through electrical conductivity...
What is a salinometer?
Name of eastern boundary current off the west coast of US...
What is the California Current?
SO2, Cl2, CO2, and H+
What are elements and compounds that add to the acidity of the ocean?
Symbiotic organism of hard corals that is strongly influenced by warm water.
What is algae?
The name of the winds between 30 and 60 degrees latitude...
What are the Westerlies?
The force that allows thunderstorms to coalesce and form hurricanes.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The saltiest surface water measured in the ocean...
What is the center of gyres?
What is downwelling?
Mn, Co, P, N, and Fe
What are elements in upwelling currents?
Type of fish associated with El Nino events.
What are anchovies?
Low latitude winds that strongly control El nino development
What are weakening trade winds?
More and greater intensity hurricanes are produced during this climate phenomena...
What is La nina?
a distinct layer of water where salinity changes sharply with depth
What is the halocline?
The current the Kon tiki followed from South America to Polynesia...
What is the Humbolt Current?
obliquity, precession, eccentricity
What are types of orbital forcing?
Organisms greatly affected by sounds, like sonar, in the ocean.
What are mammals, like whales and dolphins?
The amount of calories it takes to evaporate water.
What is adding 540 calories per gram?
A type of sea storm that may form in a western boundary current.
What is an eddy?
The environment where sound should move have the highest velocity....
What is deep water or abyss?
Shallow current that experiences both upwelling and downwelling
What are Langmuir currents?
Na, Cl, K, Ca, Br, I
What are ions that make the ocean salty?
A type of zooplankton that whales consume in great quantities.
What are krill?
The type of heat that is re-emitted by the Earth's surface to the air that we feel outside.
What is sensible heat?
The rotation of a hurricane in the northern hemisphere...
What is Counterclockwise?
Location in the ocean where sound reaches its lowest velocity.
What is the SOFAR? Sound fixing and radar channel
A type of current that flows without much influence by of the Coriolis effect.
What is a counter current?
Kurishio, Brazil, East Australia
What are Western Boundary Currents?
They come in flat and bulbous shapes, which may represent the energy in the environment.
What are brachiopods?
This climate phenomena involves a steep drop in the Polar Jet Stream, resulting in eastern precipitation and storms
What is La Nina?
Cyclonic storms that form at the Ferrel cell latitudes.
What are Extra-tropical cyclones?
This form of heat allows water to be evaporated without changing temperature.
What is latent heat?
The transfer of heat or matter by the flow of a fluid, especially horizontally in the atmosphere or the sea
What is Advection?
phosphates, nitrates, SiO2, CO3, Ca, Al
What are nonconservative constituents in ocean water?