water properties
Water is attracted to other substances
What is adhesion?
Increases by 1 ATM every 10 meters into the ocean
what is pressure?
The term that refers to the amount of salt in a substance
What is salinity?
Plants and animals perform this taking in or releasing CO2
what is respiration?
The most lit zone in the ocean
what is the epipelagic zone?
The property that allows water to support a paperclip
What is surface tension?
The ability to see through water and light is able to pass through
what is transparency?
The two main instances dissolved in sea water
What are sodium and chloride?
The burning of fossil fuels, releasing large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere
what is combustion?
The layer of the ocean made up of trenches
what is the hadal zone?
The property that allows for water to absorb a lot of heat before the temperature changes
What is high heat capacity?
The difference between how fast sound travels in the water compared to land
what is 4.5 times faster?
The two factors that alter the density of water the most
What are temperature and salinity?
The ocean absorbing carbon from the atmosphere
what is diffusion?
The zone where bioluminescence is used
what is the bathypelagic zone?
The bonds that hold water molecules to other water molecules
what are hydrogen bonds?
The color of light that goes the farthest in the ocean
what is blue light?
Nutrients and waste that fall slowly to the bottom of the ocean and provide food for organisms living there
What is marine snow?
A place that absorbs and holds carbon
what is a carbon sink?
The zone containing most of the ocean floor
what is the abyssalpelagic zone?
Bonds that hold the oxygen and hydrogen together in a water molecule
what are covalent bonds?
The place where sound travels the farthest and whales use it the most for communication
What is the Deep Sound Channel?
A process that alters the ph level of the ocean
What is ocean acidification?
compound formed when carbon and water react with each other
what is carbonic acid?
The zone containing the most fish
what is the bathypelagic zone?