Seawater
What are the three properties of seawater?
Temperature, salinity, and density
What does the abyssopelagic zone contain?
The ocean floor
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
Convergent, divergent, and transform
What drives surface currents?
Winds
What happens to global temperatures during El Nino?
Warms
What is the pycnocline?
A region in the ocean where density changes rapidly with depth.
What are the layers of the ocean from closest to farthest from the surface?
Epipelagic, Mesopelagic, Bathypelagic, Abyssopelagic, Hadalpelagic
What feature stretches across the Atlantic?
Mid-Atlantic ridge
What two factors drive thermohaline circulation?
Temperature and salinity
Why does water get deflected during Ekman Transport?
The Coriolis Force
What ions make up salt?(Cool Superheroes Might Secretly Carry Pepper spray)
Chloride, Sodium, Magnesium, Sulfate, Calcium, Potassium
What are the layers of the ocean in it's three-layer structure?
Mixed layer, pycnocline, and deep layer
What plate boundary forms a mid ocean ridge?
Divergent
At what height to length ratio does a wave have to be at to break?
1:7
Where is the low pressure cell during La Nina?
Near Asia and Australia/Western Pacific
Where does most salt come from?
The erosion of rocks
In what ocean layer do animals start turning black and red?
Bathypelagic
What is an estuary?
An ecosystem between the ocean and freshwater where there is brackish water.
Why does a wave break?
When water reaches the shore, the bottom layer of water moves slower compared to the rest of the water, making it fall over.
What phenomenon does Ekman Transport cause? (Hint: Wind blowing parallel to a shore)
Upwelling
What is the process of biological pumping?
1) Plankton take in nutrients at the surface
2) The plankton die and sink to the bottom of the ocean
3) They distribute the nutrients within them to the bottom of the ocean
In what ocean layer do we start seeing bioluminescent animals?
Mesopelagic
What is a bar-built estuary?
An estuary with a sand bar separates the freshwater from the ocean.
What is a swell?
A collection of waves produced by storm winds raging out at sea
What is it called when neither El Nino or La Nina is happening?