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Density
Salinity
Plate Tectonics
Estuaries
Misc.
100
Temperature at which water is its densest
What is 4 degrees Celsius?
100
The origin of sea salts.
What is weathering and erosion of rocks and minerals on land?
100
Type of boundary at which seafloor spreading occurs.
What is divergent boundary?
100
The definition of estuary.
What is a body of water where freshwater from a river mixes with salt water from the ocean?
100
The units for salinity.
What is o/oo or parts per thousand?
200
How to calculate density.
What is divide mass (in grams) of a substance by volume (in mL).
200
Water that has a salinity of less than 0.5 parts per thousand (o/oo).
What is fresh?
200
Subduction
What is the sinking of an oceanic plate under a continental plate at a convergent boundary?
200
The hypersaline estuary just south of Corpus Christi Bay.
What is Laguna Madre?
200
The salinity of the central portion of the Gulf of Mexico.
What is 35.6 o/oo (or 35.6 grams of salt per 1000 mL of water)?
300
The impact temperature has on density.
What is as temperature increases, density tends to decrease?
300
Water with a salinity between 0.5 and 30 o/oo (parts per thousand).
What is brackish?
300
Type of boundary where plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
300
The reasons an estuary may become hypersaline.
What is little freshwater from precipitation and freshwater inflows and high evaporation?
300
Type of boundary in which two plates are coming together.
What is convergent boundary?
400
Water with a mass of 1000 grams and a volume 1000 mL.
What is 1.000 g/mL?
400
Water with a salinity between 30 and 50 o/oo (parts per thousand).
What is saline?
400
1 mm per year = 1 km per ____
What is one million years?
400
The meaning of the term hypersaline.
What is has an average salinity greater than that of the open ocean?
400
What happens to surface water that becomes very cold and very salty.
What is it sinks?
500
The appropriate units for density.
What is g/mL?
500
How salinity affects density.
What is as salinity increases, density increases?
500
Where newer seafloor is found at a divergent boundary.
What is closest to the middle of the rift valley?
500
Impact of damming rivers on estuaries.
What is salinity increases due to decreased freshwater inflows?
500
Type(s) of boundaries that produce volcanoes.
What are convergent and divergent boundaries?