OCEANOGRAPHY SOL 5.6

Oceans cover over what percentage of the Earth? Oceanography 1 Oceans cover over what percentage of the Earth?

Oceanography 1 Answer Over 70 percent

What occurs as the depth of the ocean water increases? Oceanography 2 What occurs as the depth of the ocean water increases?

Oceanography 2 Answer Temperature Pressure amount of light

What are three things humans could do to help the ocean environment? Oceanography 3 What are three things humans could do to help the ocean environment?

Oceanography 3 Answer Create anti- pollution laws Monitor marine population Limit the hunting of certain marine animals

Oceanography 4 What mineral is the most abundant (occurs the most) in the ocean?

Oceanography 4 Answer SALT

Oceanography 5 What are the three factors that influence the type of life forms in the ocean?

Oceanography 5 Answer Temperature Pressure Amount of Light

Oceanography 6 This affects the climate of nearby areas by creating warm winds and a mild climate.

Oceanography 6 Answer The Gulf Stream

Oceanography 7 What important energy source can be found within the ocean floor?

Oceanography 7 Answer Petroleum (Oil)

What is caused by differences in density? Oceanography 8 What is caused by differences in density?

Oceanography 8 Answer Deep Ocean Currents

What causes the continental plain to be flat? Oceanography 9 What causes the continental plain to be flat?

Sediment coming from the land Oceanography 9 Answer Sediment coming from the land

Oceanography 10 The long mountain chains that run along the ocean floor are called what?

Oceanography 10 Answer Mid – Oceanic Ridges

What causes the differences in deep ocean currents? Oceanography 11 What causes the differences in deep ocean currents?

Oceanography 11 Answer Temperature

Oceanography 12 What is the name of animals that live in or on the ocean floor?

Oceanography 12 Answer Benthos

Oceanography 13 What helps to make the continental shelf rich in marine life?

Oceanography 13 Answer SUNLIGHT

Oceanography 14 What ocean feature begins at the outer edge of the shelf?

Oceanography 14 Answer Continental Slope

Oceanography 15 In the open ocean, organisms depend directly or indirectly on food that is made by what?

Oceanography 15 Answer Plankton

What causes waves to form? Oceanography 16 What causes waves to form?

Wind blowing over the surface of the ocean Oceanography 16 Answer Wind blowing over the surface of the ocean

Most ocean pollutants come from what? Oceanography 17 Most ocean pollutants come from what?

Oceanography 17 Answer Land

Oceanography 18 What must organisms that live on the continental shelf do to survive?

Constantly adapt to changing conditions Oceanography 18 Answer Constantly adapt to changing conditions

What ocean ecosystem does NOT depend on sunlight to get its energy? Oceanography 19 What ocean ecosystem does NOT depend on sunlight to get its energy?

Oceanography 19 Answer Ocean Trenches

What are the two types of plankton? Oceanography 20 What are the two types of plankton?

Oceanography 20 Answer Zooplankton (Animals) Phytoplanton (Plants)

What type of organism in the ocean cannot move on its own? Oceanography 21 What type of organism in the ocean cannot move on its own?

(Drift freely in the open ocean) Oceanography 21 Answer Plankton (Drift freely in the open ocean)

What group of organisms can swim and control their own movement? Oceanography 22 What group of organisms can swim and control their own movement?

Oceanography 22 Answer Nekton

Oceanography 23 Where would coral reefs be found in the ocean?

Oceanography 23 Answer Continental Shelf

Most ocean life occurs in what part of the ocean? Oceanography 24 Most ocean life occurs in what part of the ocean?

Oceanography 24 Answer The Continental Shelf

What causes high and low tides on Earth? Oceanography 25 What causes high and low tides on Earth?

The Moon and the Sun’s Gravity Oceanography 25 Answer The Moon and the Sun’s Gravity

Oceanography 26 What ocean feature does 2 show?

Oceanography 26 Answer Continental Shelf

Oceanography 27 Number 3 shows which ocean feature?

Oceanography 27 Answer Continental Plain

Oceanography 28 Number 4 shows which ocean feature?

Oceanography 28 Answer Ocean Trench

Oceanography 29 Number 6 shows which ocean feature?

Oceanography 29 Answer Continental Slope

Oceanography 30 Number 5 shows which ocean feature?

Oceanography 30 Answer Mid – Oceanic Ridge