1. OCEANOGRAPHY
SOL 5.6

2. Oceans cover over what percentage of the Earth?
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Oceans cover over what percentage of the Earth?

3. Oceanography 1 Answer
Over 70 percent

4. What occurs as the depth of the ocean water increases?
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What occurs as the depth of the ocean water increases?

5. Oceanography 2 Answer
Temperature
Pressure
amount of light

6. What are three things humans could do to help the ocean environment?
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What are three things humans could do to help the ocean environment?

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

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

9. Oceanography 4 Answer
SALT

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

11. Oceanography 5 Answer
Temperature
Pressure
Amount of Light

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

13. Oceanography 6 Answer
The Gulf Stream

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

15. Oceanography 7 Answer
Petroleum (Oil)

16. What is caused by differences in density?
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What is caused by differences in density?

17. Oceanography 8 Answer
Deep Ocean Currents

18. What causes the continental plain to be flat?
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What causes the continental plain to be flat?

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

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

21. Oceanography 10 Answer
Mid – Oceanic Ridges

22. What causes the differences in deep ocean currents?
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What causes the differences in deep ocean currents?

23. Oceanography 11 Answer
Temperature

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

25. Oceanography 12 Answer
Benthos

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

27. Oceanography 13 Answer
SUNLIGHT

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

29. Oceanography 14 Answer
Continental Slope

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

31. Oceanography 15 Answer
Plankton

32. What causes waves to form?
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What causes waves to form?

33. Wind blowing over the surface of the ocean
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Wind blowing over the surface of the ocean

34. Most ocean pollutants come from what?
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Most ocean pollutants come from what?

35. Oceanography 17 Answer
Land

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

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

38. What ocean ecosystem does NOT depend on sunlight to get its energy?
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What ocean ecosystem does NOT depend on sunlight to get its energy?

39. Oceanography 19 Answer
Ocean Trenches

40. What are the two types of plankton?
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What are the two types of plankton?

41. Oceanography 20 Answer
Zooplankton (Animals)
Phytoplanton (Plants)

42. What type of organism in the ocean cannot move on its own?
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What type of organism in the ocean cannot move on its own?

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

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

45. Oceanography 22 Answer
Nekton

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

47. Oceanography 23 Answer
Continental Shelf

48. Most ocean life occurs in what part of the ocean?
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Most ocean life occurs in what part of the ocean?

49. Oceanography 24 Answer
The Continental Shelf

50. What causes high and low tides on Earth?
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What causes high and low tides on Earth?

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

52. Oceanography 26
What ocean feature does 2 show?

53. Oceanography 26 Answer
Continental Shelf

54. Oceanography 27
Number 3 shows which ocean feature?

55. Oceanography 27 Answer
Continental Plain

56. Oceanography 28
Number 4 shows which ocean feature?

57. Oceanography 28 Answer
Ocean Trench

58. Oceanography 29
Number 6 shows which ocean feature?

59. Oceanography 29 Answer
Continental Slope

60. Oceanography 30
Number 5 shows which ocean feature?

61. Oceanography 30 Answer
Mid – Oceanic Ridge