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Oceanography
Information on Oceanogrpahy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why are oceans important? | The oceans are an important source of food and mineral resources as well as human recreation and transportation |
| Why is the Chesapeake Bay special? | The bay is an estuary where fresh and salt water mix |
| How are tides caused? | By the gravitational pull of the sun and moon |
| What is El Nino? | An upwelling that stops off the coast of Peru and water warms |
| What are most waves generated by? | Wind |
| What is the single largest reservoir of heat on Earth? | The ocean |
| How are seafloor features caused? | By plate tectonics include mid-ocean ridges and trenches |
| What is a Abyssal plain? | Is the relatively flat seafloor from the continental rise to the mid-ocean ridge |
| What are Seamounts? | Seamounts are underwater volcanoes |
| What supplies most of the oxygen for both the atmosphere and the ocean through photosynthesis? | Algae |