Ocean Currents
A mass of ocean water that moves from place to place
What is Ocean Currents
The percent of salinity in the ocean
What is 3.5% or 35 parts per thousand?
What type of winds can you find pushing air just above and just below the equator
What is are trade winds
The primary body that influences the tides is the
What is The Moon
When water sticks to water
What is cohesion
These currents are caused by wind
What is Surface Currents
ocean water can increase in density by a drop in temperature or a increase in ______________.
What is Salinity
The name of the current that brings warm water up our coast and to Europe
What is the Gulf Stream
When Earth, moon, and sun are aligned, ______ tides are formed.
What are Spring Tides
When water has both a negative and positive charge
What is Polarity
How many grams of salt do I need to make salt water in 500ml of water
What is 17.5g
What is one side effect of El NINO to the country of Equador?
What is No fish/food, flooding, landslides
Term used to describe when tides in between an ebb and flood
What is a Slack Tide
The name of the bonds that hold water molecules together with other water molecules (can be broken be heat)
Hydrogen
The name of the layer where water temperature remains around 2C.
What is thermocline
Why do trade winds deflect and rotate in a clockwise direction in the North?
What is The Coriolis Effect
When moon and sun are aligned at a right angle from Earth ______ tides are formed.
What are neap Tides
Water mixes well with any other substance with a charge. We call this the universal_____________
Solvent
Downwelling brings oxygen to the creatures of the deep. Where does this oxygen originate?
What is photosynthetic plants/algae
How many grams of salt do I need to make salt water in 5L of water (not ml)
What is 175g
List two process that could increase salinity in water
What is Evaporation, Ice Freezing,
Which type of tide results in two flood and two ebb tides every 24hours
What is a semidiurnal tide
bonds that hold the two hydrogen atoms together to the oxygen atom in a water molecule (not easily broken)
Covalent