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Oceanography
SOL review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What human activities within the water shed greatly affect the water quality? | - Agriculture, human waste disposal (sewage), and construction |
| In the Chesapeake Bay what two types of water mix together? | - Fresh and salt water. |
| The Chesapeake Bay watershed runoff is large concentrations of what three things? | - Industry, human population, and agriculture. |
| What type of reefs are important in catching fish and shell fish? | - Coral Reefs |
| Watershed runoff will bring large quantities of sediments. How will this affect plant and animal life? | - It will affect water clarity affecting sunlight penetration which may damage plant life and all animals above plant life on the food web |
| What is the cause of sedimentation covering coral reefs and permanently destroying them? | - Many areas can not get the proper nutrition because of the loss of productivity |
| What and who is affected by any decrease in food stocks in the ocean? | - It has an impact on the people and industries that are dependent upon those food stocks. |
| Describe the continental shelf. | - The relatively flat area that extends from the shoreline to the continental slope |
| What are some seafloor features caused by plate tectonics? | - Mid-ocean ridges - Trenches |
| Describe the abyssal plain. | - is the relatively flat seafloor from the continental rise to the mid- ocean ridge. |
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