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Oceans and Exploration
Topography
Life forms and Zones
Ocean Composition
Motions of the Oceans
100
The world's 4 oceans
What is Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Arctic
100
Large flat open sea bottom
What is abyssal plain?
100
determined by organisms habits and location
What is life groups
100
the most common compound in the ocean
What is water H2O
100
This moves in a wave
What is energy
200
97%
What is the amount of water on earth that is in the ocean?
200
Where ocean plates separate.
What is mid-ocean ridge?
200
the largest life group
What is plankton
200
33-37 ppt
What is average salinity of the ocean?
200
The Gulf Stream is an example
What is Surface Current?
300
Kind of research vehicle that reaches the deepest parts of the ocean
What is a submersible?
300
A flat-topped mountain.
What is a guyot?
300
lobsters are these.
What is benthos?
300
Most common gases in the ocean. (3)
What is nitrogen, oxygen and CO2
300
Circulation of heat and water around the world
What is ocean conveyor
400
Aproximate depth of Challenger Deep.
What is 37000 ft (7 miles) ?
400
an underwater avalanche
What is a turbidity current
400
Life zone with greatest range of organisms
What is neritic?
400
This happens to salinity at the equator.
What is it increases
400
The primary cause of tides
What is gravitational attraction of the moon
500
The first non-military use of radar satellites
What is Seasat?
500
Found on continental slopes and caused by turbidity currents and earthquakes
What is a submarine canyon
500
Darkest Life zone
What is abyssal zone?
500
This property of salt water causes the salinity to increase at the poles
What is only the water evaporates or freezes
500
Main cause of waves and surface currents
What is wind?