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What does scuba stand for?
Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
The name of animals that can swim upstream.
What are nektons?
Atoms that create water.
What is hydrogen and oxygen?
The atmospheric layer closest to earth.
What is the trophosphere?
Oceans cover __ percent of the earth.
71%
The name for when volcanic peaks do not break the surface of water.
What is seamounts?
The bonds that give water the property of adhesion.
What is hydrogen bonds?
Another name for harbor waves.
What are tsunamis?
The amount of years between the Jurassic period and now.
What is 150 million?
The depth range needed to be considered deep-sea floor.
What is the 3000-5000 meters?
What is 50 parts per thousand?
currents that flow continuously around the periphery of each ocean basin
What is gyre?
What is Iron silicate and magnesium?
The place of origin and meaning of plankton.
What is greek and drifters?
The total quantity of dissolved inorganic solids in water is known as.
What is salinity?
Tides are caused by __.
What are gravitational pulls of the sun and the moon?
The explorer the Pacific Ocean was named by.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The most notable geological feature of the mid-ocean ridge.
What are hydrothermal vents?
The bond angle in water.
What is 105 degrees?
The sun is ___ million times as massive as the moon.
What is 27 million?