Earth Science Chapter 13 Oceans

Man-made hole drilled below water table

Approximately what percentage of Earth’s water is fresh?

What part of the water cycle is indicated by H?

Water temperature is near freezing, no light. Few creatures found here. 75% of the ocean floor is in this zone.

Which of these is the main chemical building block of all living things?

The term brackish is most closely related to the ___ of a sample of water.

Island arcs are associated with subduction zones.

According to the Genesis Creation account, God created our current oceans on Day 3

What part of the water cycle is indicated by A?

Water collects in hollows and low-lying areas of land

How much mineral salt does 100 g of seawater contain?

What part of the ocean basin is indicated by D?

The light that makes it to this depth is very faint. Continental slope.

Because clams, corals, and anemones are attached to or live on the bottom, we call them __ organisms.

The water in the Chesapeake Bay is saltier than the water in the Atlantic Ocean.

Well in which water rises because of pressure in aquifer

What part of the water cycle is indicated by C?

What part of the ocean basin is indicated by C?

Zone where visible light exists. Continental shelf.

This forms when large waves first break and drop sand.

Global mean sea levels currently are

The most abundant salt found in ocean water is

Which of these would be described as pelagic?

A submerged mountain or hill rising from the sea floor

Which of the following does not belong with the other three?

Which of these do YE creationists believe were most likely created by runoff from the continents late in the Flood?

What part of the ocean basin is indicated by G?

The shallow, submerged edges of a continent

Salinity is a measure of __ in water.

Layer of rock that holds, or stores, water

Which ocean covers the largest percentage of the earth’s surface?

What part of the ocean basin is indicated by B?

About what percentage of the earth’s surface is covered by oceans?

Seawater has a lower freezing point than fresh water.

Land that is covered with a shallow layer of water

Groundwater bubbles or flows out of cracks in rocks

Sound travels in seawater

Often called the "rainforests of the sea"

What part of the ocean basin is indicated by F?

What part of the ocean basin is indicated by E?

In which life zone must organisms cope with the greatest variability of conditions?

Echolocation is an ability found in some sea creatures which man has used as a model in developing sonar.

Which of these extends the farthest out into the ocean?

Submerged mountain ranges on the ocean floor at the spreading margins of oceanic tectonic plates

What part of the water cycle is indicated by B?

What part of the water cycle is indicated by G?

In which zone is ocean temperature most affected by the weather?

The zone where bioluminescence is the only form of natural light is the littoral zone.

What part of the water cycle is indicated by E?

Which of the gases is more abundant in the lighted zones near the surface than in the dark regions in the ocean?

What part of the water cycle is indicated by F?

The largest barrier reef in the world is found off the coast of Africa.

Invertebrates thrive at this depth. Temperature of water is just above freezing with the pressure being incredible.

The deepest measured depth of the ocean is about 11,000 m (36,000 ft.).

What part of the water cycle is indicated by D?

A river and all the streams and land area that supply water to the system

Water that is forced through narrow passage due to heated gases and steam

Sections of the ocean that are more or less surrounded by land

Mass of ice and snow that moves slowly over land

What part of the ocean basin is indicated by A?

A coral reef separated from the mainland by a lagoon is a(n)

Marine snow would be most important to organisms living in the 

Visible light is only produced by organisms-bioluminescence. There is extreme pressure at this depth. Continental slope

What part of the water cycle is indicated by I?

Oceanography is a field that includes specialties such as marine biologists, marine engineers, marine chemists, etc.

As you descend through the water column, ___ .