Types of Oceanographers
Investigate the plant and animal life in every ocean environment.
Who are marine biologists?
Suitable for drinking
What is potable?
Dark and cold - only nutrients avaliable fall down from above as marine snow.
What is the Abyssal Zone?
Low salinity seawater
What is brackish?
Deepest part of any ocean basin
What is the Challenger Deep?
Analyze the distribution of elements & compounds, and how they affect the ocean.
Who are chemists?
Adjective that describes anything regarding the ocean
What is marine?
Animals in this ocean zone often use bioluminescence for attraction or as a warning signal
What is the Aphotic Zone?
High salinity seawater
What is brine?
The largest barrier reef in the world
Model the distribution of energy in the oceans and their motion.
Who are physicists?
A large section of ocean mostly surrounded by land or islands.
What is a sea?
Organisms in this ocean zone need to be either very mobile or have a sturdy design to avoid injury from breaking waves.
The most abundant gas in seawater from top to bottom
What is carbon dioxide?
Submerged mountain ranges at the edges of diverging tectonic plates
What are mid-ocean ridges?
Study the influence of the oceans on weather and climate.
Who are meteorologists?
Submerged volcanoes or mountains
What is a seamount/guyot?
What is the Photic Zone?
The most important chemicals in seawater
Zone betwen high and low tide shorelines. It may have wet, compacted sand or fine pebbles.
What is the beach face?
Develop methods and vehicles to investigate and use the oceans.
Who are marine engineers?
These organisms live at the bottom of the ocean by attaching themselves to the sea floor or crawling on the bottom
What are benthic organisms?
What is the Littoral Zone?
Surface seawater has more of this element than deeper water because it is closer to the atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
A ring of low coral islands and reefs surrounding a central lagoon.
What is an atoll?