Marine Provinces
This shallow area of the continental margin is the closest to the coast.
What is the Continental Shelf?
The chemical formula for water.
What is H2O?
Excess CO2 gets absorbed into the ocean and creates carbonic acid making the pH do this.
What is go down? or Ocean Acidification?
On the pH scale, the lower the pH, the more acidic something is.
This is the study of underwater depth and charting of ocean or lake floor topography.
What is bathymetry?
In this historical category 3 hurricane in 2005, devastation was largely caused by the city sitting below sea level and the levees built around the city failing.
What is hurricane Katrina?
Volcanic activity and plate movement in the deep sea will cause this mountain range to form.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
Molecules of water are held together by these bonds.
What are hydrogen bonds?
As salinity of water increases, the density of water does this.
What is increase?
This underwater volcanic feature is like a cone-shaped mountain.
What is a seamount?
Hurricanes are categorized in the Saffir-Simpson Scale by these two measurments.
What are wind speed and damage?
This part of the continental margin falls beneath the continental break and can be quite steep.
What is the continental slope?
Water can mix with almost anything making it have this property.
What is a universal solvent?
This phenomenon is what causes winds and ocean currents to move in a curved pattern but is not observed along the equator.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Seafloor hot springs that are deep in the ocean and often spew out smoky clouds from earth's mantle.
What are hydrothermal vents?
This is the energy source of hurricanes.
What is warm ocean temperatures?
The continental margin of the western US, has a transform plate boundary and experiences earthquakes is said to be this specific kind of margin.
What is an "active" continental margin?
This is responsible for water changing states (ice, water, water vapor).
What is temperature?
What is the troposphere?
This v-shaped crevice in the continental slope in which turbidity currents often flow downward producing a deep sea fan at the bottom.
What is a submarine canyon?
Winds are the greatest in this part of a hurricane.
What is the eyewall?
The abyssal plain is part of this marine province.
What is the deep ocean basin?
This property of water is the reason that the ocean can stay cold on a sunny day and the sand gets really hot.
What is specific heat?
Hurricanes in the southern hemisphere spin in this direction.
What is clockwise?
What are satellites?
The minimum wind speed of a hurricane classified as a category 5.
What is 155 mph or 240km/h?