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Oceanography Review

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Term
Definition
Divergent Boundries   Places where tectonic plates move apart  
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AOB is growing and POB is shrinking   Compare Atlantic Ocean Basin to Pacific Ocean Basin  
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Rift valley   Results from divergence of continental crust  
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Divergent Boundry   Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of __________.  
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Subducted   When oceanic crust converges with continental crust the oceanic crust is __________.  
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Black Smoker   Hydrothermal vents emitting water at greater than 350 degrees Cel. rich in dark metallic sulfides  
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Mid-Ocean Ridge   World's longest under water chain  
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Fossils, rock formations, and coastlines   Wegner based his teory of continental drift on this...  
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Marinas Trench   The deepest point in the ocean  
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Open field, where nothing can fall on you   The safest place to go during an earthquake  
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Radioactivity from the mantle   The origin of the heat from convection within the Earth.  
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Less dense than the oceanic crust   Reason why the continental crust floats higher in the mantle than the oceanic crust.  
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Composed of mantle material below the lithosphere   Composition of the asthenosphere  
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Secondary waves   Type of seismic wave that can only travel through solid  
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Sea Satellite   Used to see cross sectional views of the underwater land features  
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Mid-Ocean Ridge is spreading in the center, is the largest mountain chain, and the oldest mountain chain   Three things about the Mid-Ocean Ridge  
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Fecal pellets from marine animals   Increases the settling rate of fine particles in the open ocean  
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Hydrogenous   Term for sediments that are produced as a result of chemical reaction in seawater.  
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Drilling   Method most often used to investigate sediment and rock layers below seafloor.  
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Island   Term for a seamount that breaks the water's surface.  
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Atlantic type margin and a passive margin   Name for continental margin with no recent seismic activity  
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Shelf, slope, and rise   Composition of the continental margin.  
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Fringing reef, barrier reef, atoll   Order of development of reefs from the earliest to the latest  
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Calcium carbonate   Composition of foraminifera  
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Erosion by turbidity currents   What most likely formed submarine canyons  
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Hydrogen bonding and surface tension   Chemical property of water and/or physical characteristic that causes solid objects to stay supported on network of H2O molecules.  
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Pycnocline   When density changes rapidly with a corresponding change in depth  
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Heat capacity   Term that measures the heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of substance 1 degree C.  
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A decrease in salinity and increase in temperature   Causes seawater's density to decrease  
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7.8 -- 8.3   Standard pH for ocean water  
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Shadow Zone   Region where very little sound energy penetrates  
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Blue   Color of light that moves farthest through seawater  
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Colligative properties   Properties that change with salinity  
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A buffer   Substance that acts to stabilize the pH of any given substance  
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Percipitation   Process where water vapor condenses into liquid water  
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Electrical conductivity   Method for measuring salinity and total dissolved solids by measuring how well a current of electrons moves through the solution.  
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Nitrogen   Gas in seawater that must be fixed into useful chemical forms by specialized organisms in order to be used by animals.  
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Surface tension   What property allows some insects to glide across the water  
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Horse latitude   The weakest winds.  
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Low pressure cells   The kind of pressure cells that build up during hurricanes  
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Upwelling   When cold, nutrient rich water moves from ocean depths to the surface  
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Antarctica, Ellesmere Island, and Greenland   Where large glaciers are found  
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Typhoons   What hurricanes are caused by in the Pacific and Indian Ocean  
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Trade winds   Type of winds that are found between the zone of the equator and 30 degrees lat.  
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Pack, polar, and fast ice   Three types of sea ice  
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Westerlies   Type of winds that are found between the zone of 30 degrees and 60 degrees latitude.  
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Respiration   Process that burning fossil fuels are chemically similar to  
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El Nino   What happens when trade winds in the Pacific basin weakens  
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Kyoto Protocol   Agreement 60 nations signed to limit greenhouse gas emissions  
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Wet and warm   What maritime tropical air mass is like  
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Trade winds   Strongest winds on earth  
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Right   Direction winds veer in Northern Hemisphere due to Coriolis effect  
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Speed = wavelength/period   Formula for wave speed  
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one high and one low tides   Type of tides in area with diurnal tides  
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Wind direction, fetch, and wind speed   What the height of a wave depends on...  
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Orbital waves   Type of waves that are water waves  
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Constructive makes large waves and destructive makes small waves   Type of waves that constructive interference causes verses type destructive inference causes  
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Neap tide   Type of tides during the time of half moon in November  
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1/2 the wavelength   What a deep water wave must be deeper than  
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Beach, dunes, shrubs, forest, marsh, tidal flats, sound   Order of environment seen walking from ocean landward across barrier island.  
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Period = Time/Rate   Formula for period of water waves  
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Speed = length/period   Formula for speed of water waves  
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Frequency = waves/time   Formula for frequency of water waves  
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fetch   Uninterrupted distance over which wind blows without much changing in direction.  
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Steepness   Ratio of wave height to the wavelength  
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Terrestrial has largest biomass tonnage and marine has the faster turnover time   Environment that produces greater biomass tonnage and environment that has fastest turnover time  
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Chemosynthesis   Process that doesn't require light to create energy  
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Nitrogen   Gas in seawater that must be "fixed" to be useful chemical form  
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Ectothermic   Term that refers to cold blooded animals  
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Stenohaline for narrow tolerance for salinity. Eurythermal for broad range of temperatures   Terms used to describe the following organism: Narrow tolerance for change in salinity but can adapt to a wide range of temperatures  
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Mutualistic relationship   when two organisms of different species "work together," each benefiting from the relationship.  
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Sessile   Term for an organism that permanently attaches itself to the substrate  
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Species Specific Relationship   Name for exclusive symbiotic relationship that develops between two different species.  
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Trophic pyramid   Shows description of feeding relationships and how they impact each other  
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Metabolic rate   Rat at which energy-releasing reactions proceed within an organism  
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Complex interaction with species and wide variety of species   What high biodiversity within a community indicates  
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Between high and low tides   Where you would find intertidal zones  
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N2 + 4H2 --> 2NH3 + H2   Formula for ammonification of nitrogen  
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No hair and no external ears   Two things marine animals lack that help them become good swimmers  
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Jet propulsion   What a nautilus uses for movement  
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Flexible ribs   Prevents many marine animals from getting the bends when they dive  
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High tide ONLY   Tide the California grunion comes ashore to breed  
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Inferior with mouth down-turned or on the bottom of head   Shape of mouth grazers of bottom dwelling scavengers have  
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Caudal   Fins used for moving fast in the ocean  
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Anadromous   Type of fish that spawns in freshwater but lives mostly in the ocean  
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Oviparous   Type of fish that lay eggs  
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Skin is so sensitive; could not survive in salt water   Reason amphibians (frogs, salamanders, etc.) do NOT live in the ocean  
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Solar energy   Most common alternative energy  
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12 miles   Distance from shore the UN designated as territorial waters  
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Boat propellers   Linked to deaths of manatees  
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By catch or by kill   Terms of an animal that is caught by accident but killed on purpose  
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Aquaculture   Term for raising and breeding fish for commercial use  
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TED (Turtle excluder device)   Term of a by-catch reduction invention that lowers risk of turtles being accidentally caught.  
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Winter beaches are more narrower because of the greater wave action in winter   How summer and winter beaches compare  
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Influence climate of India, caused by seasonal shifts of prevailing winds, and can bring large amounts of water causing floods   Three characteristics of Monsoons  
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Shipping of oil   Largest source of ocean oil pollution  
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Exon Valdez in 1989 and BP Gulf Sill in 2010   Name of one of the largest oil spills in America off coast of Alaska in 1989 and name of the second largest oil spill in world that happened in 2010.  
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