Unique Nature of Pure Water
At this temperature pure water freezes.
What is 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit)
What property allows water to stick to other surfaces!
What is adhesion?
This is the average range of pH in the ocean.
How much is 8.0 - 8.3?
What gas is responsible for ocean acidificatio.
What is carbon dioxide? (CO2)
This type of animal put CO2 back into the atmosphere. (Not Producer or Consumer or Scavenger)
What is a decompose?
This type of bond holds water molecules together.
What are hydrogen bonds?
What property allows water to water?
What is cohesion?
This percentage of CO2 is the amount of total CO2 which enters the ocean each year.
How much is 25%?
Water is called this because it can dissolve many substances.
What is universal solvent?
As salinity increases this is what happens to the density of seawater.
What is it increases?
What are the most common ions in seawater?
What are chloride (Cl^-) and Sodium (Na^+)?
This is the percent of baby oysters that farmers have seen die.
How much is over 80%?
Water needs lots of energy to dry up because of this property.
What is high specific capacity?
This number is average amount of salinity in ocean water (In ppt).
35 ppt?
This word describes the amount of dissolved solids in seawater.
What is salinity?
These type of ions are needed for animals to build and maintain shells and other calcium carbonate structures.
What are carbonate ions?
This property allows lakes and oceans to freeze from top to bottom.
What is density?
Speed of sound underwater is mainly affected by these factors.
What are salinity, temperature, and pressure?
The process in which plants and phytoplankton turn CO2 into organic matter.
What is photosynthesis?