Unique Nature of Pure Water
Two atoms of Hydrogen and One atom of oxygen chemically bonded
What is H20?
A tool used to measure water clarity.
What is a secchi disk?
The total amount of salt dissolved in water.
What is salinity?
Carbon dioxide that is converted into organic compounds.
What is photosynthesis?
What is the epipelagic zone?
The attraction of one water molecule to another.
What is a Hydrogen bond?
Blue light penetrates the deepest unlike other colors.
What color penetrates water the deepest?
The average salinity of the ocean.
What is 35%?
The average ph of the ocean.
What is 8.0-8.3?
A zone in the ocean where whales, shrimps, octopuses, and sponges are non-moving animals could be found.
What is the Mesopelagic zone?
The total kinetic energy of all the particles in a substance or object.
What is Heat?
1 atmosphere
What is pressure at sea level?
Metals and metalloids that are present in tiny amounts in the ocean.
What are Trace elements?
Rising CO2 levels that affect the chemistry of the ocean.
What is Ocean Acidification?
Also known as the Midnight Zone
The sticking together of particles of the same substance.
What is Cohesion?
With each 10m of increased depth, another atmosphere of pressure is added.
How does pressure increase?
Trace elements that are removed from the ocean by being incorporated into sinking particles.
What is Marine snow?
The ph of the ocean is dropping and the ocean is becoming less alkaline
What is ocean acidification?
The largest environment on earth.
What is the abyssopelagic zone?
The measure of the elastic tendency of liquids.
The higher density of water causes sound to travel 4.5 times faster in water than air.
What is sound propagation?
Ions that come from volcanoes and hydrothermal vents.
What is Chlorides and Sulfides?
CaCO3
What is calcium carbonate?
The mariana trench is located here.
What is the Hadalpelagic zone?