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Oceanography
Chap 17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Algin | A mucilaginous commercial product of multicellular marine algae; widely used as a thickening and emulsifying agent |
| Aquaculture | The growing or farming of plants and animals in a water environment under controlled conditions. |
| Biological Resources | A living Animal or plant collected for human use |
| Bycatch | Animals unintentionally killed while catching collecting desirable organisms |
| Container (shipping) | A large , strong, internationally standarized metal packing box for cargo |
| Desalination | The process of removing salt from seawater or brackish water |
| Drift net | Fine, vertically suspended net that may be 7 meters high and 80 km long ( 25 ft high and 50 miles long) |
| Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) | The offshore claimed by signatories to the 1982 United Nations Draft Convention on the Law of the Sea. The EEZ extends 200 nautical miles fron a contiguous shoreline |
| High seas | That part of the ocean past the exclusive economic zone that is considered common property to be shared by the citizens of the world; about 60% of the ocean area |
| Law of the Sea | Collective tern for laws and treaties governing the commercial and practical use of the ocean |
| Mariculture | The farming of marin organisms, usually in estuaries, bays, or near shore environments or in specially designed structures using circulating seawater |
| Marine energy resources | Any resource resultin from the direct extraction of energy from the heat or movement of ocean water. |
| Maximum Sustainable yield | The maximum amount of fish, crustaceans, and mollusks that can be caught without impairing future populations |
| Nonextractive resources | Any use of the ocean in place,such as transportation of people and commodities by the sea, recreation, or waste disposal |
| Nonrenewable resources | Any resource that is present on Earth in fixed amounts and cannot be replenished |
| Overfishing | Harvesting so many fish that there is not enough breeding stock left to replenish the species. |
| Physical resources | Any resource that has resulted from the deposition, precipitation, or accumulation of a useful nonliving substance in the ocean of seabed |
| Potable water | Water suitable for drinking |
| Renewable resources | Any resource that is naturally replaced on a seasonal basis by the growth of living organisms or by other natural processes |
| Territorial waters | Waters extending 12 miles frome shore and in which a nation has the right to jurisdiction |
| U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone | The region extending seward from the coast of the United States for 200 nautical miles, within which the United States claims sovereign rights and jurisdiction over all marine resources. |
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