Final Frontier
The direction of Earth's rotation.
What is west to east?
Everywhere on Earth has the same amount of day and night on these days.
What is the spring and fall equinoxes?
The maximum O2 levels in the ocean occur within this zone.
What is the photic zone?
The most improved way to track ocean animals considering VHF tags and satellite tags.
What is satellite tags?
The two times of the year is the sun directly over the equator.
What are the spring and fall equinoxes?
The axis of the earth is tilted this many degrees from a line perpendicular to the plane of its orbit of the sun.
What is 23.5o
Besides the speed of rotation, this is responsible for the length of the day and night.
What is the Earth's tilt on its axis?
With tidal mixing, the salt concentration can become uniform throughout coastal waters. The term describing this phenomenon.
What is isohaline?
The type of satellite used to track and study marine animals.
What is remote sensing satellites?
The Earth's tilt on its axis, the Earth's revolution around the sun, and this are responsible for the seasons.
What is the parallelism of the Earth's axis?
The north end of the Earth's axis points to this.
What is the north star?
Water, grass, moon, concrete, or snow; the one with the highest albedo.
What is snow?
The two forces most responsible for variation in coastal salinity.
What are wind/evaporation and runoff?
The main cause of sea surface height differences.
What is temperature?
The average albedo of the Earth.
What is 31%?
On December 21st, the sun is directly over this imaginary line circumnavigating the Earth.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
The amount of solar insulation the tropics receive compared to the poles.
What is 2.5 times?
The two regions on Earth with the highest likelihood of the ocean being isothermal.
What are the polar and equatorial regions?
The average percentage of seawater that is composed of salt.
What is 3.5%?
The amount of incoming solar units reflected back into space.
What is 100?
The number of degrees that the Earth rotates every hour.
What is 15?
Solstice means....
What is "sun stops?"
The maximum nutrient levels in the ocean occur within this zone.
What is the mesopelagic zone?
This is the kind of tag that compresses more data than any other.
What is the Satellite Relay Data Logger?
The total amount of incoming solar units the Earth receives.
What is 340?