currents
climate control in the ocean
What are currents?
mistaken for a plant but is an animal
What is coral?
the plant that provides the most oxygen on earth
What is phytoplankton?
a luminous ball of gas
What is a star?
the 3 types of rock
What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
the amount of salt dissolved in water
What is salinity?
barrier, fringing, atoll
What are the types of coral reefs?
the smallest and most numerous marine animal
What is zooplankton?
6.5 x 105
What is a lightyear?
the ring of volcanoes along the pacific coast
What is the ring of fire?
caused by water salinity, and temperature
What are vertical currents?
DAILY DOUBLE: a spiny skinned animal, radial symmetry, eats algae on the reef
What is a sea urchin?
the study of the relationship of living organisms to the environment or nonliving
What is ecology?
67% of earths mass
What is the mantle?
the reason why a scientist might find the same fossil on opposite sides of the ocean
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
the two different types of currents
What are horizontal and vertical currents?
coral expelling algae
What is coral bleaching?
producers, consumers, and decomposers
What are niches?
DAILY DOUBLE: remnants of planet formation in our solar system
What are comets?
the spreading of tectonic plates
What is divergent?
the force that creates ocean currents
What is the Coriolis effect?
the movement caused by water salinity and temperature
What is convection?
Individual, populations, community, and ecosystem
What are the four levels of life?
a huge system of gas, dust, and stars. Our solar system is found at one of the far edges of it.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
DAILY DOUBLE: The determination of age or date of organic matter determined by carbon isotopes.
What is carbon dating?