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Oceanography 6
| questions | answers |
|---|---|
| What are volcanic mountains in the open ocean? | seamounts |
| How long is the Barrier Reef | 1200miles by 90 miles wide |
| What is the most famous part of the Emperor Seamount chain | Hawaiian islands |
| What is another chain of islands that is part of the emperor seamount chain? | midway islands |
| At what latitude will you find the ITCZ | 0 latitude as it is at the equator |
| What waves are caused by density differences and are characteristic of the pycnocline? | internal waves |
| What is the term for glacial deposits | moraines |
| What are the two primary contributors to the tides? | moon and sun |
| Barge channels dredged through the marshlands of the Mississippi River Delta increase what factor? | erosion |
| What type of estuary is the Chesapeake Bay estuary? | Coastal Plain estuary |
| In an estuary, where would you find the least salty water? | Near the surface |
| In the mixing zone of an estuary, what kind of estuary has the salt water intruding under the freshwater as it moves upriver? | salt wedge estuary |
| What is the primary characteristic of drift nets or gill nets? | transparent as they are made of monofilament line |
| What is the term for absorption of gases into the bloodstream as a dive is deep or long and the lungs cannot remove the N2 and O2 fast enough? | nitrogen narcosis or depression sickness |
| Which zone (high tide, middle tide, or low tide) in the littoral zone would you find mussels, goose-neck barnacles, and chitons? | middle tide zone |
| Which zone (high tide, middle tide, or low tide) of the littoral zone would you find limpets and periwinkles? | high tide zone |
| What organisms in the littoral zone have the following genus? Balanus, Ulva, and Pisaster | barnacles, sea lettuce, and starfish |
| What is the typcial cause of coral bleaching? | Zooxanthellae leave due to waters being too warm |
| What kind of wave is a sound wave? | longitudinal wave |
| What would the process of freeze separation lead to? | desalination of sea water as ice is made |
| What process produces the most desalinated water in the US? | distillation |
| A large amount of subduction in the Pacific lead to most of the large volcanic and earthquake events, what is this called? | the ring of fire |
| What is the speed of sound in the ocean? | 3500 mph (5X the speed of sound in air) |
| Which cephalopod is most likely to live in schools, squid or octopi? | squid |
| What are tropical cystorms called in the Indian ocean? | cyclones |
| At what speed of sustained wind to we refer to a storm as a tropical depression, tropical storm, and hurricane? | <38mph, 38-74, 75 or more |
| What are deep water waves lacking chop called? | swell |
| In the 1880's what large volcano erupted to cause one of the largest tsunami's ever? | Krakatau |
| Do waves move in the same direction as a current? | No, generally unrelated |
| Are tides larger during perihelion or aphelion? | Perihelion as this is when the sun is closest to the earth |
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