Ocean study stack Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What are 5 of the Earths oceans? | Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Artic, and Southern. |
What are two sources of water for Earths oceans? | Water Vapor expelled from volcanoes that condensed, rain and melted ice from comets and asteroids. |
How does water in Earths oceans become salty? | The water millions of years ago dissolved the minerals of rock. The minerals contained substances that formed salts, than rivers and streams carry it to the oceans. |
What is salinity? | Salinity is a measure of mass of dissolved solids in a mass of water. |
What are 3 regions of the continental margins? | Continental shelf, continental slope and the continental rise. |
What are the 2 types of resources from the seafloor? | Energy resources and minerals. |
What are 4 criteria scientists use when classifying ocean zones? | The amount of sunlight, the temperature, the salinity and the density. |
What are the 3 ocean zones? | Surface zone, Middle zone and the deep zone. |
Which is one of the ways that water is a unique compound? | It has a high specific heat, it exists in all forms naturally, water forms drops when it splits, ice can float, and some substances dissolves in water. |
What is cohesion? | the attraction among molecules that are alike. |
What is adhesion? | the attraction among molecules that are not alike. |
How does the ice make it possible for organisms to live in the lake in the winter? | It keeps the warm air in the lake so the organisms don't freeze. |
why does ice only stay on the surface of the water without sinking to the bottom? | Because ice isn't denser than the water. |
Why is water sometimes called the universal solvent? | Because it can break up natural substances like NaCl. |
What do 2 hydrogen particles and one oxygen particle make? | H2O which is water. |
True or false- The density of ice is lower than the density of the same volume of liquid water? | True. |
What is a gyre? | A gyre is a circular system of currents. |
Which way do each of the hemispheres curve due to the coriolis effect? | The northern hemisphere curves right in a clockwise direction and the southern hemisphere curves left in a counter clockwise direction. |
What is an ocean current? | An ocean current is a large volume of water flowing in a certain direction. |
What is a benefit of an upwelling? | It brings cold nutrient water from the ocean and it supports large populations of organisms. |
What causes a density current? | The changes in density. |
What are the 3 different types of currents? | Surface currents, upwelling currents and density currents. |
What current moves water horizontally? | Surface currents. |
True or false- Only 2 of the 3 currents move water from place to place. | False- All 3 currents move water from place to place. |
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