Ocean's Eleven
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100

Ocean's cover this percent of Earth's surface.

What is 71%

100

This type of margin is associated with subduction zones, deep-ocean trenches, volcanoes and earthquakes.

What are active continental margins?

100

This is the avg. salinity of sea water.

What is 3%?

100

This is what "haline" means

What is salt?

100

This is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge? (mid-ocean ridge)

200

This is the "water hemisphere".

What is the Southern Hemisphere?

200

These are the three major units (provinces) of the ocean floor.

What are continental margins, deep-ocean basins, and ocean ridges?

200

These are the two reasons oceans are salty.

What is chemical weathering and outgassing?

200

These are 3 of the 5 gyres.

What  is N/S Pacific, N/S Atlantic, Indian Ocean?

200

Which is more acidic: 3.8 or 4.5?

3.8 is more acidic.

300

These are the four main ocean basins.

What is Pacific, Indian, Artic and Atlantic?


300

These are the three major units of a passive continental margin.

What are continental: shelf, slope, and rise?

300
These are 3 of the 4 causes for a decrease in salinity.

What is precipitation, runoff, iceberg melting, and sea ice melting.

300

Coriolis Effect causes fluids to curve this way in the Northern Hemisphere.

What is to the right (or clockwise)?

300

A more acidic ocean does this to seashells.

What is make them weaker (or slower growth)?

400

This is what S.O.N.A.R. stands for.

What is Sound Navigation and Ranging?

400

Name three of the four features that you would find in a deep ocean basin.

What is Abyssal Plain, Seamounts, Trenches and Plateaus?


400

Increase in dissolved CO2 in ocean water will cause the pH to do this.

What is decrease?

400

The Gulf Stream goes from ____ to ____.

What is Gulf of Mexico to NW Europe (Great Britain)?

400

During El Nino, does warmer or colder water get pushed to the eatern Pacific?

warmer water

500

These are the four sciences that make up oceanography.

What is Geology, Chemistry, Physics, and Biology?

500

This is an extremely deep, flat region of the deep-ocean basin.

What is the Abyssal Plain?

500

Dissolved CO2 in water creates this acid.

What is Carbonic Acid?

500
If you stood on a seashore for 24 hrs, you would experience this many tides. 

What are 4 tides?

500
Was this last winter an El Nino winter or a La Nina winter?

This last winter was an El Nino winter.

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