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Oceanography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What will change causing changes in the size and location of the ice caps? | Circulation |
| What is an estuary where fresh and salt water mixes? | Chesapeake Bay |
| What has a harmful effect on numbers of important food species? | Over-fishing |
| What may cover coral reefs permanently destroying them? | Sedimentation |
| What's the major mechanism of energy transfer in the oceans, atmosphere and the Earth’s Interior. | Convection |
| What is the relatively flat seafloor from the continental rise to the mid- ocean ridge | Abyssal Plain |
| What brings cold nutrient rich water from the bottom to the surface? | Upwelling |
| Decrease in food stocks in the ocean will have what type of impacts? | Economic |
| What affects weather patterns world wide? | El Nino |
| True Or False? Human pollution from runoff can increase underwater populations which die slowly. | False |