Unique Nature of Pure Water
This is the chemical formula for water
What is H20?
Salt is composed of this.
What are ions?
The total amount of salt dissolved in water.
What is Salinity?
Affects the chemistry of the ocean
What is rising CO2 levels?
Form of carbon marine plants use during photosynthesis
What is dissolved carbon dioxide?
Universal solvent
What is water?
Trace elements are removed from the ocean when they are incorporated into these sinking particles.
What is marine snow?
Account for 85% of ions in the ocean
What is Sodium and Chloride?
The organisms at risk of ocean acidification
What are organisms with shells?
The percent of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere
What is 30%
Water expands
What happens when water freezes?
Ions dissolved in seawater come from this.
What are metalloids?
Needed by organisms to build and maintain shells and other calcium carbonate structures
What are carbonate ions?
8.0-8.3 and is currently dropping because of this
What is the average pH of the ocean dropping because of less alkaline?
The positive charges in a water molecule
What charge do the hydrogen atoms have?
Sound Fixing and Ranging Channel that allows sound to carry great distances
What is SOFAR?
Trace elements usually enter the ocean through this
What is hydrothermal activity, river runoff and the atmosphere?
Shells are made out of this
What is calcium carbonate? (CaCO3)
The process of Carbon Dioxide being absorbed by and mixed with the ocean
What is diffusion?
The sticking together of particles of the same substance, like water.
What is cohesion?
The name of the description of water when it is really salty
What is dense?
What is the temperature of the deep ocean?
Ocean Acidification affects this which disturbs whales and other animals
What is the result of ocean acidification making underwater sound go farther?
CO2 being released into the atmosphere that goes into the ocean from factories
What is Combustion?