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Oceanography 8
Oceans ES. 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are major issues concerning our oceans? | Over-fishing, human pollution, and oil spills |
| What do currents in the ocean do? | currents distribute heat by carrying warm water from equator to poles and cold water from the poles to the equator. |
| What are tides? | tides are the periodic rise and fall of the water level caused by the moon and sun. |
| What does el nino do? | El Nino which affects weather patterns world wide is caused when upwelling stops off the coast of Peru and water warms. |
| What is a major mechanism of energy transfer in the oceans? | Convection is the major mechanism of energy transfer in the oceans, atmosphere and the Earth’s Interior |
| what do you call a geographical map of the ocean? | A Bathymetric map |
| What are seafloor features caused by? | plate tectonics, the features are mid-ocean ridges and trenches |
| what and where is an abyssal plain? | is the relatively flat seafloor from the continental rise to the mid- ocean ridge The basement or parent rock below the abyssal plain are oceanic rocks (basalt) |
| What and where is a continental shelf? | is the relatively flat area that extends from the shoreline to the continental slope The continental slope is the steeply sloping area that is between the continental shelf and the rise The parent or basement rocks are continental rocks (granite and gne |
| What is Virginia's watershed? | The Chesapeake Bay can be largely affected by this watershed runoff. In the Chesapeake Bay watershed is large concentrations of industry, human population and agriculture |
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