_______ is masses of ocean water that flow from one place to another.
What is Ocean Currents?
100
__________ is the horizontal distance between two successive crests or two successive troughs.
What is Wavelength?
100
____________________ is the bending of waves
What is Refraction?
200
Seawater consists of about 3.5% dissolved mineral substances called
What is Salt?
200
What processes affect Salinity?
What is Precipitation, runoff from land, icebergs melting, evaporation and sea ice melting?
200
___________ are movements of water that flow horizontally in the upper part of the ocean’s surface
What is Surface Currents?
200
_________ is the vertical distance between the trough and crest.
What is Wave Height?
200
__________ is the accumulation of sediment found along the shore of a lake or ocean.
What is a Beach?
300
Most salt in the seawater is commonly termed?
What is Sodium Chloride?
300
Density is defined as?
What is Mass Per Unit Volume?
300
_______ are large circular surface current pattern found in each ocean
What is Gyre?
300
______ are daily changes in the elevation of the ocean surface.
What is Tides?
300
______ is the sawing and grinding action of rock fragments in the water.
What is Abrasion?
400
What are the primary sources of dissolved substances in the ocean?
What is Chemical Weathering?
400
Seawater density is influenced by two main factors?
What is Salinity and Temperature?
400
____________ is the deflection of currents away from their original course as a result of Earth’s rotation.
What is Coriolis Effect?
400
The height, length, and period that are eventually achieved by a wave depend on what three factors?
What is (1) wind speed, (2) length of time the wind has blown, and (3) fetch?
400
___________ is a near-shore current that flows parallel to the shore.
What is a longshore current?
500
What are the secondary sources of dissolved substances in the ocean?
What is from Earth's Interior?
500
Name the layer of ocean water between about 300 and 1000 meters, where there is a rapid change of temperature and depth.
What is Thermocline?
500
_________ is the rising of cold water from deep layers to replace warmer surface water.
What is Upwelling?
500
_________ are tides that have the greatest tidal range due to the alignment of the Earth–moon–sun system.
__________ are tides that have the lowest tidal range, occurring near the times of the first-quarter and third-quarter phases of the moon.
What is Spring Tide and Neap Tide?
500
Name four landforms that formed as a result of erosional features?
What is Wave-cut Cliffs, Platforms, Sea arches and Sea stacks?