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Oceanography Review
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How are tides, currents, and waves similar?
They are all caused by wind
They are all ocean movement
They are all caused by the moon's gravitational pull
They are all caused by density changes
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A decrease in seawater temperature or an increase in salinity causes...
Upwelling along the coast
Surface Currents
An increase in seawater density
The Coriolis Effect
3
Plants / animals in the intertidal zone need to have all EXCEPT this characteristic to survive
Flexible stems / leaves
Ability to withstand high pressure
Ability to withstand waves
Ability to live in and out of water
4
Where would you find benthos organisms?
Photic Zone
Traveling in ocean currents
Oceanic Zone
In or on the seafloor
5
The hadal zone gets its name from
The Odyssey
The Bible
Aesop's Fables
Greek Mythology
6
What causes ocean surface currents?
Ocean movements associated with earthquakes
Friction between the ocean and wind on its surface
Changes in water density
Gravitational attraction
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What percentage of water is found in the photic zone?
50%
95%
71%
5%
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Which kind of tide is lower?
Spring Tide
Neap Tide
9
What percentage of Earth's surface is covered by water?
15%
82%
5%
71%
10
The measurement and mapping of ocean depth and seafloor features is called
Bathymetry
Topography
Satellite
Sonar
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This shallow ocean area can extend up to 500 km from shore
Continental Shelf
Oceanic Zone
Intertidal Zone
Continental Slope
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Where do animals in the aphotic zone get their food?
They swim to the surface to eat
It rains down from the surface
From the plants growing there
They don't eat.
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Sonar is used to measure...
Ocean Density
Sea-surface height
Ocean Depth
Ocean Temperature
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Why is upwelling important?
It brings nutrients to the surface waters
It helps build the abyssal plain
It brings warmer water from the tropics to the poles
It decreases wind along coastlines
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Which of the following characteristics is NOT used to divide the ocean into zones?
Salinity
Water depth
Light availability
Distance from shore
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Which of these factors does NOT cause currents
Change in Salinity
Amount of light
Change in Density
Wind
17
A seamount is
A creature that lives in the benthic zone
A former island
An underwater volcano that hasn't reached the ocean surface
A flat-topped underwater volcano
18
What is the name of the ocean zone that plants cannot grow in?
Aphotic Zone
Photic Zone
Neritic Zone
Benthic Zone
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What are the lines on a bathymetric map called?
Elevation lines
Depth Lines
Height lines
Contour lines
20
The benthic zone includes all the following zones EXCEPT
Intertidal Zone
Hadal Zone
Continental Slope
Neritic Zone
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Rapid Changes in temperature and pressure would occur in this zone
Photic Zone
Continental Slope
Continental Shelf
Neritic Zone
22
A guyot can be described as all BUT
A flat-topped volcano
An island
A former island
A formerly active volcano
23
This is how you spell the number 4
four
foor
foer
fore
24
What does the word petrichor mean?
A tooth and gum disease that often causes lock-jaw
A fossilized piece of tree bark
The pleasant, earthy smell after rain
A mythical creature that is related to Pegasus
25
A turbidity current is
Caused by wind
A fast-moving ocean current
Caused by changes in salinity or temperature
Movement of sediment down the continental slope
26
Which kind of tide is higher?
Neap Tide
Spring Tide
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Which of these is NOT true about the oceanic zone?
It contains the aphotic zone
It contains the neritic zone
It includes part of the photic zone
It contains most of the ocean's water
28
Currents affect climate by
Making ocean water evaporate
Changing the density of water in the tropics
Transferring heat from polar regions to the tropics
Transferring heat from the tropics to polar regions
29
Which zone includes ocean trenches?
Abyssal Zone
Photic zone
Neritic Zone
Hadal Zone
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How deep is the Mariana Trench?
3,600 ft
45,542 ft
45,000 ft
36,070 ft
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Scientists use satellites to measure
Sea-surface Height
Ocean Temperature
Ocean Depth
Ocean Density
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What does NOT cause a density current?
Change in temperature
Wind
Evaporation
Change in salinity
33
The name of the deepest known ocean trench is
Marina Trench
Mariana Trench
Marissa Trench
Marine Trench
34
The distance from one wave trough to the next trough is called
Wave Period
Wavelenth
Wave height
Fetch
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Salinity refers to
Water pressure
Amount of light in water
Amount of salt in water
Water density
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The only light in the aphotic zone comes from
Bioluminescence
The Sun
Glow Sticks
Flashlights
