Seawater
This is how much salt is dissovled
What is salinity?
Underwater topography
What is bathymetry?
Intertidal, neritic, and oceanic zones
What are the marine zones?
Waves, tides, and currents transfer this.
What is energy of motion?
Salt glands, specialized kidneys, high concentrated urine.
What are adaptations of a sea organism?
An area of the seabed connected to the continent.
What is continental shelf?
These are found in the aphotic layer.
What are the twilight and midnight zones?
Energy, wind, and temperature affect these.
What are waves?
Streams, volcanoes and wind
Where does the ocean get its salt?
Underwater mountain range formed by plate tectonics.
What is mid-ocean ridge?
Organisims here have many adaptations, such as burrowing and sticking to rocks.
What is the intertidal zone?
This brings nutrients to the surface.
What is upwelling?
Adding this will change water's properties.
What is salt?
Commonly found near mid plate hot spots.
What is a seamount?
This zone lies over the continental shelf.
What is the neritic zone?
Streamlike, moving masses of water.
What are currents?
Gives water all of its properties
Good for finding shipwrecks
What is side-scan sonar?
This is the main difference between aphotic and photic layers.
What is light?
These are patterns of rising and falling along the shoreline.
What are tides?