Oceans and exploration
Ocean Water
Ocean Topography
Ocean-Life Zones
Motions of the Ocean
100
This covers about 71% of the earth's surface.
What is oceans
100
Most common compound in the ocean.
What is water?
100
The transition between the continental crust and the oceanic crust.
What is the continental margin?
100
These are determined by habits and depth of ocean water.
What is ocean-life classification?
100
The three types of ocean movement.
What is waves, currents, and tides?
200
Because of this, the ocean is a major source of fresh water.
What is the water cycle?
200
The average salinity of the oceans.
What is 3.5% or 35 ppt?
200
The deepest part of the ocean is located in these zones.
What is subduction zones?
200
Form of ocean life that swims.
What is nekton?
200
The transfer of energy through water.
What is a wave?
300
This was the first major expedition for ocean exploration.
What is the Challenger?
300
The most common salt in the ocean.
What is sodium chloride (NaCl)?
300
A flat topped seamount.
What is a guyot?
300
Life zone that is not always under water.
What is the intertidal zone?
300
This causes tides.
What is gravitational pull of the moon?
400
This is the deepest ocean.
What is the Pacific?
400
This happens to salinity at the mouths of rivers.
What is it decreases?
400
The deepest point on earth's surface.
What is Challenger Deep (in the Mariana Trench)
400
The ocean life zone with the greatest variety of life.
What is the neritic zone?
400
The complete circuit of currents around the world.
What is the ocean conveyor belt?
500
Earth Orbit satellite remote-sensing program begun in 1978 to map the ocean floor.
What is Seasat
500
Salinity increases at the poles due to this property of salt water.
What is only the water freezes leaving the salt behind?
500
The three types of coral reef.
What is fringing, barrier and atoll?
500
Whales would spend most of their time in this life zone.
What is the bathyal zone?
500
Brings warm water and air from the Caribbean to Europe.
What is the Gulf Stream?
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