Salinity
Long undersea mountain ranges are called
Undersea Earthquakes, seabed slides, and volcanic eruptions can cause
Tsunamis
The herring fishing in the Atlantic can be used as an example of this process
What is overfishing?
Water that flows across the surface of the Earth and does soak in is called this
What is groundwater?
A remarkably flat, wide open place of the ocean where sediments can make layers almost 1 km thick in some places. What is it?
The Abyssal Plain
an especially strong tide that occurs twice a month during the new moon and full moon phases.
Spring Tide
The leopard frog is a good example of this
What is indicator species?
Explain how an ocean trench is formed
An ocean plate pushes against the edge of a continental plate
What 3 factors influence the direction of wind and surface currents
Uneven heating of the atmosphere (convection)
Rotation of the earth (bending)
The continents (deflecting)
3% Of the worlds water is Fresh. Of that 3% how is the water dispersed between glaciers, ground water and accessible above ground water
75% is glaciers
~24% is ground water a
< 1% is in lakes, rivers, ponds, streams
a moderate tide that occurs twice a month when the gravitational pulls of the Sun and the Moon are perpendicular to each other
Neap Tide
What is Effluent?
The name given for wastewater that has been treated
If the Sun’s thermal energy is suddenly removed from the Earth's system, why does the water cycle immediately stall instead of continuing through groundwater flow?
What is because the Sun provides the fundamental thermal energy required to drive evaporation and transpiration, meaning the cycle lacks the vapour input to form clouds and precipitation