Steadfast Salinity/
terrific temps
terrific temps
Seawater consists of water with various materials that mainly come from here.
What is the weathering or rocks and hydrothermal vents
Winds in the atmosphere are caused by this
The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree C.
What is Specific Heat
The steeper section of a continental edge, extending seaward from the continental shelf.
What is the continental slope
The property of water that keeps its molecules held together
What is hydrogen bonding
Say you had a tub of salt water. Half evaporated, this would effect the salinity how?
What is it would increase the salinity of the water left behind
The name for the curved lines the wind blows in
What i the coriolis effect
The way in which the rotation of the earth bends the path of winds and resulting sea currents
What is the coriolis effect
The major oceans of the world largest to smallest
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic
The reason waters temperature wont rise or fall very quickly
What is specific heat
What is Sink
The way the gyres move in the Northern Hemisphere
What is clockwise
The time of largest tidal range due to the gravitational pull of the aligned sun and moon
What is a spring tide
The deepest marine trench in the world is in the Pacific Ocean, that means this plate activity is occurring there.
The reason the ocean is blue
What is the wavelengths of blue light penetrating the deepest into the ocean
Water will do this when it is warmer
What is rise
Waves carry this across the water's surface
What is energy
Large, circular systems of surface currents driven by the wind
What are Gyres
The reason why Oceanic crust is underwater and continental crust is not
True or false, solid water is more dense than liquid water
What is flase
The allows for marine life to live even in the Arcitc
What is the buoyancy of solid water
Tidal ranges are their largeest during this type of moon because of the gravitational pull of the aligned sun and moon
The time of the smallest tidal range due to the moon and sun being located at right angles to each other.
What is a neap tide
Most animals favor this area of the sea due to its amount of sunlight and producers.
The continental shelf
Water is known as a universal ________
What is solvent