BATHYMETRY
Sea floor spreading is also known as 'Divergent plate boundaries'. What is the new area between these diverging plates called?
Diverge means to separate from one another.
Mid Ocean Ridges
Name for Rising tide and Dropping tide ?
Flow (not flood) and Ebb
Primary Consumers only eat plants. This makes them?
Herbivores
The global conveyor belt _________ after the current leaves the equator and travels past the poles.
Re-charges
Photosynthesis stops working at what depth?
100m
What is it called when tectonic plates pull apart and magma fills the middle?
Sea Floor spreading
Name for rapid change in Density
Pycnocline
Name the 4 main trophic levels.
Producers
Primary consumers
Secondary consumers
Tertiary consumers
Name for Input and Output of Sand
Accretion and Erosion
EEZ STANDS FOR?
Exclusive Economic Zone
Oceanic trenches are created through what tectonic movement ?
Subduction
Describe Halocline?
Rapid change in salt in the ocean
Think back to the Herbivore Question. What would Secondary Consumers be classified as?
Describe the Intertidal zone
Area above the water at Low and Under at High
The most oxygen in the ocean is found at?
100m
Continental Margin
What is the name for the movement of material(sand) along(parallel) to the shore by wave action. It happens when waves approach the beach at an angle.
Longshore Drift
Name 3 abiotic factors?
Describe the weather/climate in Australia during La Nina?
Wet, Humid, Hot temperatures
Amensalism means ?
One animal is killed or harmed, the other is unaffected.
Name for the parts of the ocean, more than 200m deep that include trenches, abyssal plains and volcanic peaks?
Ocean Basin Floor
Global Conveyor belt begins at ____________ . Here it picks up cold, __________ ______ water.
Greenland.
Nutrient Rich
What is this the definition for?
The capacity of an ecosystem to recover from a disturbance or withstand ongoing pressures.
Ecosystem Resilience
Describe the weather/climate in South America during El Nino
Wet and Humid, hot temperatures.
Name when both animals benefit from a relationship.
Mutualism