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Oceanography

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How are oceans important? Oceans are important b/c they are a source of food and mineral resources as well as human recreation and transportation
What are ocean resources? Ocean resources are finite
What human activities affect the water quality? Runoff of fertilizers and animal water, sewage, and construction runoff
The Chesapeake Bay is where what type of water mixes? Fresh and Salt water
How does runoff affect the water clarity? Runoff brings large amount of sediments that affect sunlight penetration that damages plant life and all animals about plant life.
Most waves are generated by what? Wind
Tides are caused by what? Gravitational pull from the moon
Algae supplies most of what in the atmosphere and ocean? Oxygen
Currents distribute what by carrying warm water from equator to pole and cold water from the poles to the equator Heat
Movement of what will disrupt normal flow of currents present in the ocean today? Plates
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