Zones
Benthic means this
What is bottom?
Surface currents are driven by this
What is wind?
Tides are driven MOSTLY by this
What is the moons gravity?
Measured in parts per thousand, this is the total concentration of dissolved salts in water
What is salinity?
This is the apparent shift in large scale winds and currents due to the earth's rotation
What is Coriolis?
Open ocean animals such as whales are most likely to be found in this zone
What is the pelagic zone?
These are large circular flows that span each of the 5 major ocean basins
What is gyres?
What type of tide is it when the sun and the moon are at a 90 degree angle
What is a neap tide?
Measured with a YSI, this property of water increases when there are more primary producers present
What is DO?
This is a circular fluid motion in which hot air rises, cools at high altitude, sinks back down, and then travels back across the surface of the earth to replace rising hot air
What is a convenction cell?
Photosynthesizers can be found only in this zone, which is the layer that receives sunlight
What is the photic zone?
The Gulf Stream is a surface current that is also known as this
What is a western boundary current?
This force creates an equal bulge of water on the opposite side of the earth from the gravitational forces and is due to the earth's rotation
What is a centrifugal force?
Rough conditions that stir up sediment can increase the value of this abiotic property
What is turbidity?
In the northern hemisphere, air currents are deflected to this side
What is their right?
This zone encompasses the narrow space that is underwater at high tide and dry at low tide
What is the intertidal or littoral zone?
Thermohaline circulation is driven by differences in this property of water
What is density?
The biggest differences in water level between highs and lows come during this type of tide
What is a spring tide?
Light can penetrate down to about this depth
What is 200m?
These strong prevailing easterly winds can be found just on either side of the equator
What are the tradewinds?
This zone is the area from shore out to the end of the continental shelf
What is the neritic zone?
Longshore currents run in this direction, relative to shore
What is parallel?
When an incoming tide is forced through a narrow space, it is called this
What is a tidal bore?
This is the chemical formula for nitrate, the form of dissolved nitrogen that plants can uptake from the water
What is NO3 -?
This is the prevailing wind direction in Miami
What is east?