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Oceangraphy!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ocean are an important source of what? | food and mineral resources as well as human recreation and transportation. |
| Human pollution from runoffs can increase what? | it can increase algae populations which will die quickly and can cause an area of mass deaths of animals in that area. |
| Any decrease in plant populations will affect what? | it would affect all animals and animals above them on the food web. |
| What are tides? | tides are the periodic rise and fall of the water level caused by the moon and sun. |
| When water warms it can cause what? | it can cause hurricanes. |
| Seafloor features are caused by what? | they are caused by plate tectonics , mid-ocean ridges , and trenches. |
| Convection is the major mechanisms of energy transfer in what? | in oceans , atmosphere , and the earth's interior. |
| Topography of the seafloor is a what? | it is a variable on the continents. |
| What is the continental shelf? | it is the relatively flat area that extends from the shoreline to the continental slope. |
| What is the abyssal plain? | it is the relatively seafloor from the continental rise to the mid-ocean ridge. |
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