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General Oceanography
Coral Reefs
Estuaries
Life in the Ocean
History of the Ocean
100
These are uses of the ocean. (3/5)
What are -food -recreation -travel -climate -energy -medicine -oil/minerals
100
These are the two categories of camouflage.
What are crypsis and memesis?
100
This is a place where fresh and sea water mix.
What is an estuary?
100
These are the four important nutrient cycles.
What is -water -carbon -nitrogen -phosphorus
100
These were the first accomplished western navigators.
Who were the Phoenicians?
200
This is the average salinity of the ocean.
What is 35%?
200
These are the 4 types of camouflage.
What are color patterns, illumination, physical shape, and using other objects to disguise themselves?
200
These are more specific names for an estuary.
What are lagoons, sloughs, and bays?
200
These are the four organic groups important to life.
What is -lipids -carbs -proteins -nucleic acids
200
The Phoenicians used the ocean for these two things.
What are food and travel?
300
This is a zone of rapidly changing water temperature.
What is a thermocline?
300
These are the three types of behavioral strategies.
What are mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism?
300
This is a retreating glacier cut along the valley coast.
What is a fjord?
300
These are the five characteristics of living things.
What are -made up of cells -grow and develop -respond to environment -obtain and use energy and nutrients -reproduce
300
He successfully led a circumnavigating expedition.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
400
These are causes of what? -wind -seismic activity -plates shifting -volcanic activity -tsunamies
What are waves?
400
This is when a harmless organism uses "toxic" colors.
What is Batesian mimicry?
400
These are factors that influence the distribution of salinity. (3/6)
What is -shape of estuary -wind -evaporation -changes in tide -seasonal variations -rainfall patterns
400
These are the six most important elements for life.
What is -oxygen -nitrogen -hydrogen -carbon -sulfur -phosphate
400
This is when expeditions for studying the ocean began.
When is the mid-19th century?
500
These things happen when a swell approaches. (4)
What are -depth of basin decreases -waves slow in the front -wavelength decreases -wave height increases
500
These are three oceanic physical adaptations used for survival.
What are aposematic coloration, spines and pincers, and regenerative abilities?
500
This is a place where an accumulation of sediment builds up sand bars and barrier islands that act as a wall between the ocean and rivers.
What is a bar-built estuary?
500
This kind of organisms does not regulate body conditions but rater changes with the environment.
What is an osmoconformer?
500
This expedition collected an enormous amount of information and samples.
What is the Challenger Expedition?