Ocean's cover this percent of Earth's surface.
What is 71%
This type of margin is associated with subduction zones, deep-ocean trenches, volcanoes and earthquakes.
What are active continental margins?
This is the avg. salinity of sea water.
What is 3%?
This is what "haline" means
What is salt?
This is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge? (mid-ocean ridge)
This is the "water hemisphere".
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
These are the three major units (provinces) of the ocean floor.
What are continental margins, deep-ocean basins, and ocean ridges?
These are the two reasons oceans are salty.
What is chemical weathering and outgassing?
These are 3 of the 5 gyres.
What is N/S Pacific, N/S Atlantic, Indian Ocean?
Which is more acidic: 3.8 or 4.5?
3.8 is more acidic.
These are the four main ocean basins.
What is Pacific, Indian, Artic and Atlantic?
These are the three major units of a passive continental margin.
What are continental: shelf, slope, and rise?
What is precipitation, runoff, iceberg melting, and sea ice melting.
Coriolis Effect causes fluids to curve this way in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is to the right (or clockwise)?
A more acidic ocean does this to seashells.
What is make them weaker (or slower growth)?
This is what S.O.N.A.R. stands for.
What is Sound Navigation and Ranging?
Name three of the four features that you would find in a deep ocean basin.
What is Abyssal Plain, Seamounts, Trenches and Plateaus?
Increase in dissolved CO2 in ocean water will cause the pH to do this.
What is decrease?
The Gulf Stream goes from ____ to ____.
What is Gulf of Mexico to NW Europe (Great Britain)?
During El Nino, does warmer or colder water get pushed to the eatern Pacific?
warmer water
These are the four sciences that make up oceanography.
What is Geology, Chemistry, Physics, and Biology?
This is an extremely deep, flat region of the deep-ocean basin.
What is the Abyssal Plain?
Dissolved CO2 in water creates this acid.
What is Carbonic Acid?
What are 4 tides?
This last winter was an El Nino winter.