1. Oceanography Unit Review
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2. Question #1
What kind of particle can be lifted by wind?

3. Answer:
Dust

4. What is the movement of a particle by a series of “jumps”?
Question #2:
What is the movement of a particle by a series of “jumps”?

5. Answer:
saltation

6. Question #3:
What is sand made of?

7. Answer:
quartz

8. Question #4:
What is it called when wind removes the top layer of fine, very dry rock or soil particles, leaving only large rocks behind?

9. Answer:
deflation

10. What are mounds of wind-blown sand?
Question #5:
What are mounds of wind-blown sand?

11. Answer:
dunes

12. Question #5.5
What is a thick yellowish deposit of wind-blown dust called?

13. Loess

14. What is it called when waves or rocks break up other rocks?
Question #6:
What is it called when waves or rocks break up other rocks?

15. Answer:
abrasion

16. What kind of weathering occurs when salt and air react with rocks?
Question #7:
What kind of weathering occurs when salt and air react with rocks?

17. Answer:
chemical

18. Some beaches are black because the source rock is what?
Question #8:
Some beaches are black because the source rock is what?

19. Answer:
Volcanic rock

20. The area people use for recreation is called what?
Question #9:
The area people use for recreation is called what?

21. Answer:
berm

22. Waves that run parallel to the shore are called?
Question #10:
Waves that run parallel to the shore are called?

23. Answer:
longshore

24. The sea is currently rising at a rate of what?
Question #11:
The sea is currently rising at a rate of what?

25. Answer:
1 mm per year

26. Question #12:
What is it called when the mouth of a river gets submerged by ocean water?

27. Answer:
estuary

28. Question #13:
What is brackish water?

29. Mix of saltwater and freshwater
Answer:
Mix of saltwater and freshwater

30. Question #14:
What are the long, narrow offshore islands that run parallel to the shore called?

31. Answer:
Barrier islands

32. What is the body of water between the barrier islands and the shore?
Question #15:
What is the body of water between the barrier islands and the shore?

33. Answer:
lagoon

34. What are the conditions that animals in a coral reef need?
Question #16:
What are the conditions that animals in a coral reef need?

35. Answer:
Warm, shallow, water

36. How much of our planet is water?
Question #17
How much of our planet is water?

37. Answer:
71%

38. What are the four major oceans?
Question #18:
What are the four major oceans?

39. Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic
Answer:
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic

40. What is the study of the physical characteristics, chemical composition, and life forms of the ocean called?

41. Oceanography

42. What are underwater research vessels called?

43. Submersibles

44. What do scientists use to map the ocean floor? (what type of system)

45. SONAR

46. What does SONAR stand for?

47. SOund Navigation And Ranging

48. What is the big, flat part of the ocean floor called?

49. Abyssal Plain

50. What is an underwater mountain range called?

51. Mid-Ocean Ridge

52. What is the feature formed on the bottom of the ocean floor when one plate goes under another plate?

53. Trench

54. What is the part of the ocean that is the boundary between continental crust and oceanic crust?
(where continental crust “becomes considered” oceanic crust)

55. Continental slope

56. What is an underwater volcano called?

57. Seamount

58. What are the three most common gases dissolved in the ocean water?

59. Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Carbon Dioxide

60. Where is the highest salinity ocean water?

61. At the equator

62. What is the zone of ocean water where the temperature drops drastically from warm to cold?

63. Thermocline

64. What are the two things that affect density?

65. Salinity and Temperature

66. Ocean water has the color it does because of its ability to _______________ .

67. Reflect light

68. What is a steady movement of water in one direction called?

69. Current

70. What is the driving force of ocean currents?

71. Wind

72. What are the three things that affect currents?

73. Wind, rotation of Earth, shape of continents

74. What is the name of the effect of the currents that occurs because of Earth’s rotation?

75. Coriolis Effect

76. Where do warm currents flow?

77. AWAY FROM the equator

78. Where is the crest of a wave?

79. At the top

80. Where is the trough of a wave?

81. At the bottom

82. What is it called when water hits the shore and is carried back to the deep ocean by an irregular current?

83. Undertow

84. What is the swift movement of water caused by the return of water to the ocean through channels in a sandbar?

85. Rip current

86. What are the daily changes in the level of the ocean surface?

87. Tides

88. Gravitational pull is strongest on which side of the earth?

89. The side facing the moon

90. What is the difference between the levels of the high and low tides at specific locations?

91. Tidal range

92. What kind of tide occurs during the new and full moon?
(when the sun, moon and earth are aligned)

93. Spring tides

94. What kind of tide produces the smallest tidal range?

95. Neap tides

96. Which direction does a flood tide flow?

97. TOWARD the shore

98. This concludes today’s review activity.
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