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Oceanography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why is the ocean important ? | its a good source for food and mineral resources |
| What is out watershed ? | Chesapeake Bay |
| Runoff will also bring large quantities of sediments that will affect water clarity affecting sunlight penetration which may damage plant life and all animals above plant life on the food web. True or False | True |
| What will the movement of plates do to the ocean ? | disrupt normal flow of currents |
| What does upwelling bring | cold nutrients rich water from the bottom to the surface and areas of high biological activity will develop. |
| What are most waves generated by ? | Wind |
| Climates nearer the ocean are milder than those found inland on the continent. true or false | true |
| What causes El Nino ? | when upwelling stops off the coast of Peru and water warms |
| What are sea floor features that are caused by plate tectonics ? | mid-ocean ridges and trenches |
| What is a Abyssal plain | the relatively flat seafloor from the continental rise to the mid-ocean ridge. |