Oceans
Currents
Salinity
Transpiration, Lakes in Winter
Miscellaneous
100
The ocean surrounding the Antarctica.
What is the Southern Ocean
100
haline- is a suffix which means this.
What is salinity.
100
Rain does this to salinity.
What is decreases.
100
Water vapor leaves plants through openings called this.
What is stomata.
100
This is why freezing increases salinity.
What is salt does not freeze so it is left in the remaining water.
200
Where you are swimmimg when you go to the beach at Port Aransas.
What is the Gulf of Mexico
200
Currents that are driven by density.
What are thermohaline currents.
200
Freezing does this to salinity.
What is increases.
200
Transpiration is driven by these processes.
What is water pressure, capillary action, and evaporation.
200
This is why water is polar.
What is the oxygen is slightly negatively charged and the hydrogen is positively charged.
300
The Ocean along the east coast of South America.
What is the South Atlantic
300
Three reasons thermohline currents are important.
What is distributes nutrients, oxygen, and stabilizes weather.
300
Evaporation and drought does this to salinity.
What is increase.
300
This is what causes the dead zone.
What is bacteria consuming oxygen during decomposition.
300
Water becomes less dense between these temperatures.
What is 4 degrees celsius and zero degrees celsius.
400
The ocean off the coast of California.
What is the North Pacific.
400
Thermohaline currents make up _____ percent of all ocean currents.
What is 90%
400
This is how much of the earth's surface area is covered by salt water.
What is 71%.
400
This causes turn overs in the spring.
What is ice melts and warms to 4 degrees celsius at which point it sinks.
400
This is why water becomes less dense when heated.
What is the heat causes water molecules to move more and spread apart.
500
The ocean on the east coast of Africa.
What is the Indian Ocean.
500
This drives thermohaline currents.
What is density.
500
When you mix hot fresh water, cold fresh water, and cold salt water together this water will settle in the middle.
What is cold fresh water.
500
This is how fish survive during the winter.
What is staying in the deeper warmer water beneath the insulating layer of ice.
500
water only dissolves these kinds of substances.
What is charged or polar substances.
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