1. Oceanography AND VA Resources
The greatest variety of ocean life is in the shallowest part of the ocean at the edge of the continents known as the:
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How much of the Earth is covered by oceans?
The deepest parts of the ocean are the:
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As the depth of the ocean increases, what decreases?
Underwater mountains caused by plate movements are called:
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As the depth of the ocean increases, what else increases?
The steeply sloping part of the ocean floor by the continental shelf is the:
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2. continental shelf trenches 70% ridges temperature and amount of light
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trenches
70%
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ridges
temperature and
amount of light
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continental slope
pressure
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3. The flat ocean floor is the: What causes ocean currents?
The gently sloping edge of the continental slope that touches the abyssal plain is the:
What causes tides?
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The flat ocean floor is the:
What causes ocean currents?
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What tiny plant-like organisms produce much of the Earth’s oxygen and serve as the basis of the ocean ecosystem?
What causes waves?
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Phytoplankton need sunlight for photosynthesis and therefore live:
What are the three basic motions of ocean water?
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4. pull of the moon’s and sun’s gravity continental rise
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surface currents: wind
deep ocean currents:
differences in temperature
and water densities
abyssal plain
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wind
phytoplankton
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waves, currents, tides
at the ocean’s surface
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5. What are the names of the five oceans?
What is the chemical symbol for sodium chloride (salt) found in ocean water?
What are the names of the five oceans?
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How many tides do most shores have?
In a water sample, salinity is a measure of the amount of:
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What is the name of the ocean current that carries warm water from the Equator to Europe?
What is the removal of salt from seawater?
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What is the rising of deep water to the ocean’s surface?
What are some examples of ocean pollution?
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6. Atlantic, Pacific, Artic, Indian, Southern NaCl
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saltiness
2 high and 2 low tides
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Gulf Stream
desalination
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dumping garbage, oil spills, chemical runoff
upwelling
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7. What watershed covers approximately half of Virginia’s land area?
What are the three types of marine life, starting with the closest one to the surface?
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What is a partially enclosed body of water where fresh water and salt water mix?
What are two things that can have an effect on the salinity of ocean water in different places?
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List natural resources important to Virginia’s economy.
What is the United States largest estuary?
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What is a watershed?
What are some important uses of land in Virginia?
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8. Plankton (floating organisms) Nekton (swimming organisms)
Benthos (live on the ocean floor)
The Chesapeake Bay
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estuary
Rates of evaporation; amount of runoff
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Forests, arable (farmable) land, coal, sand and rocks, wildlife and aquatic organisms, clean water and air, beautiful scenery
Chesapeake Bay
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An area over which surface water (and the materials it carries) flows to a single collection place
recreation, economic
activities, support life
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