Unique Nature of Pure Water
Liquid, Solid, Gas
What are the three states of water?
Sound fixing and ranging channel
What is SOFAR?
Tiny amounts of metals and metalloids.
What are trace elements found in seawater?
Carbon dioxide
What gas causes ocean acidification when more of it enters the ocean?
5
How many layers of the ocean are there?
Heat
What is total kinetic energy of all the particles in a substance or object?
Blue light
What penetrates the deepest while the other colors are absorbed?
About 35 parts per thousand
What is the average salinity of the ocean
PH decreases
What happens to the ocean's pH as it becomes more acidic?
Sunlight zone
What is the first layer that receives the most sunlight?
Two or more chemically bonded atoms
What are molecules the result of?
Transparency
What is the level of penetration that varies greatly depending on the material dissolved in the water?
Sodium and chloride.
What two ions make up about 85% of the ions in seawater?
Shells and other calcium carbonate structures.
What do organisms use carbonate ions to build?
Mariana Trench
What is the deepest place on Earth?
Two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen chemically bonded together
What is in the water molecule?
Salinity
What is the total amount of salt dissolved in water?
The water becomes denser
What happens to water density when salinity increases?
Photosynthesis
What process turns carbon dioxide into organic compounds?
DMV
What is the largest animal migration that happens every night?
Heat capacity
What is The amount of heat needed to raise asubstance’s temperature by a given amount
Trace elements that are removed from the ocean when they are incorporated into sinking particles
What is marine snow?
They make up more than 99% of the material dissolved in seawater.
What are the six main ions responsible for?
It makes building and maintaining their shells harder and takes more energy.
How does ocean acidification affect animals with shells?
Bathypelagic zone (midnight zone)
What is the layer where the only light is produced by bioluminescent animals?