Unique Nature of Pure Water
Causes bugs to be able to walk on water
What is Surface Tension
Salinity is a percent of the ocean
What is 35%
Ions that come from rivers are
What is Sodium, Potassium,and Magnesium?
Ocean acidification can cause greater morality in marine
What is Larvae and Oysters?
The Carbon cycle begins in the
What is the atmosphere?
Property of water that allows it to stick to each other
What is Cohesion?
The saltier seawater is it becomes
What is denser?
Ions that come from hydrothermal vents
What is Sulfides and Chlorides
Organisms at most risk of ocean acidification
What is animals with shells?
About ___% of CO2 goes into the ocean each year
What is 35%?
Allows water to not overly heat up
What is high specific heat?
Density is usually controlled more by ____ than salinity
What is temperature?
Table salt tastes the same as
What is sea salt
Average ph of the ocean
What is 8.0-8.3?
What is photosynthesis
Allows ice to float on the surface of water
What is ice is less dense as a solid?
Allows animals to eat deep in the ocean without effort
What is marine snow ?
Sodium and Chloride account for a ___% of the ions
What is 85%
Ions needed by organisms to build and maintain shells
What is carbonate ions?
Respiration by consumers, decomposers, and producers breaks down the
Organic compounds
Water climbing up a thin tube against gravity is called this
What is Capillary Action?
The deepest layer of the ocean
What is Hadalplegaic zone?
99.5% of seawater consists of
What is water and salt?
Ocean acidification can suppress the ____ ____ of many animals
What is the immune system?
The movement of carbon between the atmosphere, oceans, land, and living organisms
What is the carbon cycle