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Oceanography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ocean resources are ? | Finite |
| What will run-off bring? | large quantities of sediments that will affect water clarity affecting sunlight penetration which may damage plant life. |
| As the land becomes colder during the fall and winter and the ocean becomes? | warmer |
| Sea floor features caused by plate tectonics include? | mid-ocean ridges and trenches. |
| Sea floor features include? | Continental shelves, continental slopes , continental margin, abyssal plains, and seamounts. |
| The oceans are important source of? | food and mineral resources. |
| The Chesapeake Bay is an? | estuary where fresh and salt water mixes |
| Sedimentation can protect coral reefs permanently? | False. They destroy them |
| Convection is the major _____ of energy transfer in the oceans, atmosphere, and the Earth's Interior. | mechanism |
| Climates nearer the ocean are colder or milder? | Milder |