Oceanography
This is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
What is an Ecosystem?
The abiotic factor that is found in every marine ecosystem.
What is water or salinity?
A circular pattern of water found in each ocean.
What is a gyre?
This ecosystem covers the majority of the oceans surface.
What is the Open Ocean?
The study of the seafloor and the features found on the seafloor.
What is Bathymetry?
The deepest point of the ocean.
What is the Challenger Deep (within the Mariana Trench)
The abiotic factor that affects temperature and how bright the ocean is.
What is sunlight?
This is the force outside of the ocean that determines the direction currents go.
What is wind?
This ecosystem has nutrient rich waters and has a great effect on water temperature and density.
What is the polar seas?
The technology used to map the ocean floor.
What is SONAR?
This is the closest ocean/sea to Colorado.
What is the Gulf of California?
This ecosystem is void of sunlight.
What is the Deep Sea?
In the Oceanic Conveyor Belt, cold water sinks to deep ocean currents because of this factor.
What is density?
The influence of this animal could result in garbage in the ocean, oil spills, or habitat destruction.
What is human?
An underwater mountain
What is a seamount?
71% of the Earth's surface is water. All of this water is a part of a system on Earth.
What is the Hydrosphere?
The determining factor in an objects buoyancy.
What is density?
This compound is a product of Photosynthesis and is consumed by other marine organisms.
What is glucose?
The ecosystem that provides habitat through the colonization of a specific animals.
What is a Coral Reef?
The deepest seafloor feature.
What is a Trench?
The layer in the ocean that is illuminated by the layer above it, not by the sun.
What is the Twilight Zone?
The region that causes salinity to decrease due to an increase in rain fall.
What is the equator/tropics?
Atmospheric Nitrogen is converted to Ammonia.
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
The ecosystem that protects coastlines from erosion, provides extensive habitats, and balances salinity.
What is a Mangrove Forest?
The underwater steep slope of a continent.
What is a Continental Slope?