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Oceanography ES 10
Ocenography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ____ __________ ______ is an estuary where fresh and salt water mixes. | The Chesapeake |
| What may cover coral reefs permanently destroying them? | Sedimentation |
| There are large _______ systems in the ocean. | current |
| What do the currents in the ocean do? | distribute heat |
| What will disrupt normal flow of currents present in the ocean today? | Movement of plates |
| What is the single largest reservoir of heat on the Earth? | The Ocean |
| What affects weather patterns world wide is caused when upwelling stops off the coast of Peru and water warms? | El Niño |
| ___________of the seafloor is as variable as that on the continents. | Topography |
| What is caused by plate tectonics include mid-ocean ridges and trenches? | Seafloor features |
| What is the abyssal plain? | relatively flat seafloor from the continental rise to the mid- ocean ridge |