LAB 2

Question 1

What is the order of a food chain?

Answer 1

primary producer-pimary consumer-secondary consumer-decomposer

Question 2

What are the two ways primary procures get food?

Answer 2

photosynthesis (convert sunlight to energy) and chemosynthesis (convert chemicals to energy)

Question 3

The ratio of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus

Answer 3

106:16:1

Question 4

Does latitude affect salinity?

Answer 4

increases with latitude (ice takes water away) evaporation at equator

Question 5

What is the Driving Force, Depth Affected, Circulation Patterns, Relative Speeds of Currents in Deep Circulation?

Answer 5

DF: density (temp and salinity) DA: about 4000 m CP: deep, RS of currents: really slow 2000 yrs

Question 6

What is Driving Force, Depth Affected, Circulation Patterns, and Relative Speeds of Currents of SURFACE CIRCULATION?

Answer 6

DF: trade winds, DA: 100 m, CP: surface, and RS of currents: quick

Question 7

(8) What is surface circulation Driven By?

Question 8

(8) What is the Coriolis Deflection?

Question 9

(8) What is the Eckman Transport?

Question 10

(8) What is the diagram of the Eckman Transport?

Question 11

(8) What is the El Nino?

Question 12

(8) What changes between normal and El Nino times?

Question 13

(8) Diagram of Northern Hemisphere

Question 14

(8) What is the difference between spinning and moving?

Question 15

(7) How does temperature and salinity affect density?

Question 16

(7) What are the calculations to convert density to g/cm cubed

Question 17

(7) What drives deep ocean circulation?

Question 18

(7) What is a deep ocean circulation path called?

Answer 18

global conveyor belt

Question 19

(7) Why is Antarctic bottom water so dense?

Question 20

(7)What are the relative speeds of surface and deep circulation?

Question 21

(8) What is the crest?

Answer 21

peak of the wave

Question 22

(8) What is the trough?

Answer 22

bottom of the wave

Question 23

(8) What is the wavelength?

Answer 23

distance between peaks or troughs

Question 24

(8) What is the wave period?

Answer 24

time it takes for a wave to move a instance of one wavelength

Question 25

(8) What is the wave frequency?

Answer 25

number of waves passing a fixed point per second

Question 26

(8) What is the amplitude?

Answer 26

equal to half the wave height

Question 27

(8) What is wave height?

Answer 27

vertical distance from crest to trough

Question 28

What creates a wave?

Answer 28

WINDS creates waves in oceans

Question 29

What are other disturbances that cause waves?

Answer 29

earthquakes and the gravitational pull of sun and moon

Question 30

What are tsunamis?

Answer 30

seismic sea waves created by Earthquakes

Question 31

What are Earthquakes?

Answer 31

vertical movement along faults

Question 32

What are tides?

Answer 32

long waves created by gravitational pull of the sun and moon

Question 33

What are deep water waves?

Answer 33

waves tahat occur in water that is deeper than the wave base, these waves do not "feel" the bottom

Question 34

What is the depth of deep water wave?

Answer 34

deeper than halve the wavelength of the wave

Question 35

Depth of a shallow water wave

Answer 35

less than L/20

Question 36

What are Shallow water Waves?

Answer 36

waves that occur in depths less than 1/20 of wavelength and feel botto

Question 37

What are diurnal tides?

Answer 37

occur once daily, have one high and one low tide per day of about equal amp.

Question 38

What is a semidiurnal tide?

Answer 38

occur twice daily (2 high and 2 low) about = ample.

Question 39

What is a mixed tide?

Answer 39

occur twice daily (2 high and 2 low) but exhibit significantly unequal amplitudes

Question 40

What was a result of the wave lab?

Answer 40

waves got closer together an taller as it reached the beach also slowed down

Question 41

What is an amphidrome?

Question 42

(9) What are the limiting factors of primary productivity?

Question 43

(9) What are the primary producers of coral reefs?

Question 44

(9) What are the processes through with primary production occurs?

Question 45

(9) What is biological magnification?

Question 46

(9) What amount of energy is transferred from level to level in a food chain?

Question 47

(9) What is the red field ratio and how do you use it to determine limiting nutrients ?

Question 48

(9) How do you make a food chain and a food web?

Question 49

(9) What is the difference among primary producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and decomposers?

Question 50

(9) problems similar to 11 and 12 from lab 9