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World Ocean final

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Nutrients
Chemical Control
Acts like a liquid and is made of nickel Iron
Outer core
First ship chartered completely for ocean study
Challenger
What are biogenic sediments?
calcareous and silicieous
What percent of world is water?
70.8%
Salinity
Chemical control
Silver, Uranium, Vitamins found in what?
Water
Space
Biological Control
Substrate
Physical control
Deepest Ocean
Pacific
Bottom half of Pangea
Gondwanaland
Long and Narrow Ocean
Atlantic
Biggest issue with Desalination
Cost
Mound formed by wave crashing into shore
Berm
Where Submarine canyons are located?
Continental slope
Contains Ring of Fire
Pacific
Contains magnesium and is very dense
Mantle
Sand bar; very long
Barrier islands
William Beebe
Bathysphere
Food
Biological Control
What are Hydrogenic sediments?
Gypsum, Salt
Three types of lithogenic sediments?
terrigenous, volcanic, cosmogenic
Smallest
Indian
Oxygen
Chemical control
Distinct change in slope
Continental slope
One whole continent
Pangea
Land-locked Ocean
Arctic
First full time U.S. oceanographer
Maury
what color dissapears first in water?
red
Coolest Ocean
Pacific
Vent Worms
Pogonophora
Farming marine organisms
Mariculture
River flowing into an ocean pushing lots of sediment
Deltas
Acts like solid and is made of nickel Iron
Inner core
what color disappears last?
violet
Warmest Ocean
Atlantic
Carbon Dioxide
Chemical Control
Used in gels, thickeners, Stabilize
Kelp
Cubozoa
Sea Wasps Medusa
Many Marginal Seas
Atlantic
Sand bar offshore
Offshore bar
Caused by longshore drift; closes of bay
Baymouth bar
Water Depth
Physical control
Hydrozoa
Man o' war Medusa to Polyp
Anthozoa
Sea Anemones and coral Polyp
What characteristics do you use to determine water mass?
Temperature and Salinity
What is Langmuir circulation?
Converging and diverging spirals
what are silcieous oozes formed from?
sponge spicules, silica
Ocean with Diluted water
Arctic
Growing plants and animals in water
Aquaculture
Deposited landform between land and island due to wave refractions
Tombolos
First person to propose continental drift?
Alfred Wegener
Why is OTEC not feasible?
Oceans lose energy before hitting the land
Light
Physical control
Part of Continent with little slope
continental shelf
Temperature
Physical Control
Deepest point in ocean
Marianas Trench
Saltiest Ocean
Atlantic
How is OTEC not feasible?
Economically
Converting ocean waves, tides, currents and temperature to energy
OTEC
Sulphur, lead, zinc, silver and platinum found where?
Hydrothermal vents
Located at rifts
Hydrothermal vents
Manganese, magnesium, iron copper nickel found in what?
Manganese nodules
Shallowest Ocean
Arctic
what are calcareous oozes formed from?
forams, coccolithophores, pteropods
Largest Ocean 1/2 of earths surface
Pacific
Contains Guyots and Abyssal Plains
Deep Sea Floor
Ph of ocean water
7.8
Triangular Ocean
Indian
Least Salty
Pacific
How do they determine salinity?
titration
at what level is there no light
1000 m
top layer of earth
crust
Forams, Radiolarians, Diatoms
Protoctistans
Top half of Pangea
Laurasia
Stromatolite
Kingdom Bacteria
what are the currents of the North Atlantic Ocean
North Atlantic Equatorial Current, Florida Gulf Stream, North Atlantic Current, Canary Current
Gold, Diamonds, Iron, Argonite, Phosphate, Sulphur found in what?
Placer Deposit
What are the most important things in determing tidal patterns?
Sun and Moon forces
What evidence do we have for continental drift?
Continental outlines, ancient climates and environments
Reproduction
Biological Control
Person to talk about contracting and expanding earth?
Sir Francis Bacon
What does Ph depend on?
organic acids photosynthesis pressure temperature
what is the average salinity of the ocean
3.5%
Scyphozoa
True Jellyfish Polyp to Medusa

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