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1
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The average seawater of saline and salinity?

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3.5% saline

Salinity= total amount of salts dissolved in the water

2
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Sources of Sea Salts?

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1) Chemical weathering of rocks

2) Volcanic outgassing

3
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The process that decreases salinity by adding fresh water to oceans is?

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1) Precipitation
2) Runoff from land
3) Icebergs melting (only fresh)
4) Sea ice melting (only fresh)

4
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The process that increases salinity by removing water, leaving salt behind is?

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1) Evaporation

2) Formation of sea ice (freezing seawater in saline ocean)

5
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Ocean Temp Variations: Low-latitudes?

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receive more direct sunlight

  • water have high temp @ surface
  • rapid decrease in temp w/ depth is called thermocline
6
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Ocean Temp Variations:

High-latitudes?

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receive less direct sunlight b/c closer to the N and S poles.
Water has cooler surface temp.
NO thermocline present

7
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What is Density?

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The mass per unit volume; basically how heavy something is for its size

8
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Two factors affecting seawater density?

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1) Salinity- dissolved solids in water, the more it will be

2) Temperature- greatest influence; increase water temp causes thermal expansion and reduces density

9
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What sea is ten times as saline as average seawater and therefore much more dense?

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The Dead Sea

10
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Ocean layering is based on what?

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Water density

11
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The three zones in ocean layering?

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1) Surface Mixed Zone: sun warmed. relatively shallow
2) Transition Zone: temp fall w/ depth. Thermocline present
3) Deep Zone: sunlight never reaches. temp few degrees above freezing. high density

12
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The three classifications of marine organisms?

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1) Plankton (floaters): bacteria; makes up most earth’s biomass
2) Nekton (swimmers): sea animals capable to move independently Unable to move through breadth of ocean b/c of temp & nutrients
3) Benthos: bottom dwellers, can live in shallow to deep water

13
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What zones are used with the Availability of Sunlight?

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Photic zone- upper part that is sunlit. Eurphotic is where light is strongest

Aphotic zone- deep ocean, no sunlight

14
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What zones are used with the Distance from the shore?

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Interidal zone- land & ocean meet and overlap

Neritic zone- low tide line continental shelf out to the shelf break

Oceanic zone- beyond continental shelf

15
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What zones are used with the Water depth?

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Pelagic zone- open ocean of any depth

Benthic zone- include and sea-bottom surface

Abyssal zone- subdivision of benthic zone (food sources include hydrothremal vents)

16
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What is another word for Hydrothermal Vents?

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Black smokers