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Oceanography
ES 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary where what? | fresh and salt water mixes |
| Runoff will also bring large quantities of what? | sediments |
| Sedimentation may cover coral reefs permanently doing what? | destroying them |
| Over-fishing has harmful effects on numbers of important what? | food species |
| Convection is the major mechanism of energy transfer in the what? | oceans |
| Topography of the seafloor is as variable as that on the what? | continents |
| Continental shelf is the relatively a what? | flat area |
| Seamounts are what? | underwater volcanoes |
| Tides are the periodic rise and fall of the what? | water level |
| Algae supplies most of the oxygen for both the what? | atmosphere and oceans |