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