unique nature of pure water
The measure of the elastic tendency of liquids
What is surface tension?
Used to measure water clarity.
What is a Secchi disk?
Salinity is the total amount of ____ dissolved in water.
What is salt?
The process of the ocean becoming less alkaline when the pH of the ocean is dropping.
What is ocean acidification?
First layer of the ocean. Also known as the sunlight zone.
What is the Epipelagic Zone?
The type of energy temperature reflects.
What is Kinetic energy?
Pressure _____ dramatically with ocean depth.
What is increases?
The saltier the water is, the more ____ it is.
What is Dense?
The organisms most at risk of ocean acidification.
What are organisms with shells, skeletons and other structures made of calcium carbonate?
The deepest zone. Also known as the trenches.
What is the Hadal zone?
The sticking together of particles of the same substance.
What is Cohestion?
Color that penetrates the deepest in the ocean.
What is blue light?
Trace elements incorporates into sinking particles.
What is marine snow?
How carbon dioxide is converted into organic compounds.
What is photosynthesis?
Where organisms migrate during DVM.
What is migrating from the mesopelagic zone up to the surface.
Water is at its most dense state when it’s in this state.
What is liquid?
Property that water is denser than
What is air?
The average salinity of the ocean.
What is 35%?
% of how many baby oysters are dying according to oyster farmers
What is 80%?
Zone where sea pigs live.
What is Abyssopelagic Zone?
Property that helps stabilize large bodies of water.
What is high heat capacity?
SOFAR’s full name
What is Sound fixing and ranging channel?
Density is usually controlled by this instead of salinity
What is temperature?
The estimated amount of CO2 entering oceans each year.
What is 1/4?
How many meters down is the Bathypelagic Zon
What is 1,000m-4,000m.