1. 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
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500

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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

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

9. 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)

10. 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

11. 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

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

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

14. Name the part of the ocean floor shown below.
trench

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

16. 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

17. Waves: 100
What causes waves?
the wind

18. Name the part of the wave shown below.
crest

19. Name the part of the wave shown below.
trough

20. Name the part of the wave shown below.
wavelength

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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

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

30. 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

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

32. Daily Double