Earth's Oceans
Ocean Currents
Composition of the Ocean
Ocean Waves
Ocean Tides
100
The world's largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
The direction ocean currents move in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is counterclockwise?
100
The amount of dissolved salts in a liquid.
What is salinity?
100
Two types of ocean waves.
What are surface and underwater?
100
The daily rise and fall of water along the coast.
What is tides?
200
Ocean A
What is the Arctic Ocean?
200
Ocean currents at the equator are warm and less dense while ocean currents near the poles are .
What is cold and more dense?
200
The three ways salts get into the world's oceans.
What is underwater volcanoes, underwater vents, or weathering and erosion of rocks?
200
Causes underwater waves.
What are earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides?
200
Look at the graph on your study guide. The day of the highest, high tide.
What is January 1?
300
Ocean B
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
It causes the surface current to turn.
What is the wind, the continent, and the rotation of the Earth?
300
The way to increase the salinity of ocean water.
What is evaporation?
300
Causes surface waves.
What is the wind?
300
Look at the tide graph on your study guide. The day of the highest, low tide.
What is January 10, 11, 12, or 13?
400
Ocean C.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
At least two difference between surface and deep ocean currents.
What is surface currents are on the surface, warmer, less salinity, and less dense?
400
Three ways to decrease the salinity of ocean water.
What is add water from a river, glaciers melting, and precipitation?
400
According to this graph, the effect of energy from wind speed increasing.
What is the wave height increases?
400
Look at your graph on the study guide. The day of the highest, high tide.
What is day 1 and 2?
500
Ocean D and E
What is the Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean?
500
The reason a deep ocean current is found deep in the ocean.
What is it is colder with a higher salinity so it will sink?
500
The 2 elements that make up most of the salinity (salts) of ocean water?
What are Sodium and Chloride?
500
The wave height when the wind speed transfers the least amount of energy.
What is 0 meters?
500
The reason for a spring tide.
What is the sun earth and moon are in a straight line during a new or full moon?