Jeopardy! Vocabulary Ocean Composition Ocean Floor Waves Currents and Tides Ocean Life 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500

What is the weight of the water pressing on an object? Vocabulary: 100 What is the weight of the water pressing on an object? desalination rate of evaporation runoff salinity sodium chloride upwelling water pressure wave water pressure

What is the speed of the process of liquid turning into gas? Vocabulary: 200 What is the speed of the process of liquid turning into gas? desalination rate of evaporation runoff salinity sodium chloride upwelling water pressure wave rate of evaporation

What is precipitation draining from the land into a body of water? Vocabulary: 300 What is precipitation draining from the land into a body of water? desalination rate of evaporation runoff salinity sodium chloride upwelling water pressure wave runoff

What is the process of removing salt from seawater? Vocabulary: 400 What is the process of removing salt from seawater? desalination rate of evaporation runoff salinity sodium chloride upwelling water pressure wave desalination

What is a concentration of dissolved salts in a body of water? Vocabulary: 500 What is a concentration of dissolved salts in a body of water? desalination rate of evaporation runoff salinity sodium chloride upwelling water pressure wave salinity

What is the scientific name for salt? Ocean Composition: 100 What is the scientific name for salt? sodium chloride

What percentage of Earth do the ocean’s cover? Ocean Composition : 200 What percentage of Earth do the ocean’s cover? 70% or 71%

Is ocean water more dense or less dense that fresh water? Ocean Composition : 300 Is ocean water more dense or less dense that fresh water? more dense (that’s why it’s easier for you to float)

Name three resources people can get from the oceans. Ocean Composition : 400 Name three resources people can get from the oceans. fish, shellfish, sea plants, mineral deposits, petroleum, natural gas, salt, water

What causes the salinity of ocean water to vary? Ocean Composition : 500 What causes the salinity of ocean water to vary? rates of evaporation and runoff

Name the part of the ocean floor shown below. abyssal plain

Name the part of the ocean floor shown below. continental shelf

Name the part of the ocean floor shown below. trench

Name the part of the ocean floor shown below. ridge or mid-ocean ridge

Name the part of the ocean floor shown below. 100 Point Bonus! What is the bottom of the continental slope that extends to the ocean floor? continental rise continental slope

Waves: 100 What causes waves? the wind

Name the part of the wave shown below. crest

Name the part of the wave shown below. trough

Name the part of the wave shown below. wavelength

Name the part of the wave shown below. 3 2 4 1 wave height

What are rivers of water that travel through the ocean known as? Currents and Tides: 100 What are rivers of water that travel through the ocean known as? currents

How many high tides are there usually in a day? Currents and Tides: 200 How many high tides are there usually in a day? two

What is the rising of deep water to the ocean’s surface? Currents and Tides: 300 What is the rising of deep water to the ocean’s surface? upwelling

What causes tides? the pull of the gravity of the moon Currents and Tides: 400 What causes tides? the pull of the gravity of the moon

What causes surface currents? What causes deep-ocean currents? Currents and Tides: 500 What causes surface currents? What causes deep-ocean currents? surface currents are caused by wind; deep-ocean currents are caused by differences in water densities

What is the name for life that lives on the ocean floor? Ocean Life: 100 What is the name for life that lives on the ocean floor? 100 Point Bonus! Give an example. lobster, crab, oyster, seaweed, sea star, etc. benthos

What is the name for organisms that swim in the ocean? Ocean Life: 200 What is the name for organisms that swim in the ocean? 100 Point Bonus! Give an example. shark, fish, octopus, etc. nekton

Ocean Life: 300 What is the name for organisms that are carried along by the ocean’s current? plankton

What is the name for plant-like plankton that produce their own food? Ocean Life: 400 What is the name for plant-like plankton that produce their own food? phytoplankton

Ocean Life: 500 What is the name for animal-like plankton that eat plant-like plankton? zooplankton

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