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Oceanography
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Oceans are important source of what and mineral resources as well as human reaction and transportation? | Food |
| What resource is finite and should be used with care? | Ocean |
| What watershed do we live in? | Chesapeake Bay |
| Where does fresh water and salt water mixes? | Chesapeake Bay |
| What brings large quantites of sediments that will affect water clarity affecting penetration? | Runoff |
| True or False? Over-fishing doesn't have harmful effects on numbers of important food species? | False |
| Most waves are generated by what? | Wind |
| Are there small or large current systems in the ocen? | Large |
| What is a continental shelf? | Area that extends from the shoreline to the continental slope |
| What is a abyssal plain? | Relatively flat seafloor from the continental rise to the mid- ocean ridge |