Unit 2B Ocean 2.08 Mid-Unit Test Review

Seawater absorbs light, so sunlight is only able to penetrate the oceans to a depth of ___.

Which of the following changes on a daily basis?

How does salt get into the ocean?

Which wavelength of light travels the shortest distance/is absorbed first in the ocean?

What tool is used by oceanographers to study salinity?

Which of the following are main factors that contribute to surface currents?

Which color of light penetrates ocean waters the deepest?

What causes tides?

Salts change the physical properties of water. Identify the correct change below.

What are tides?

Which type of ocean currents move very slowly (500-2,000 years)?

Chemical and _____ processes remove salts from seawater.

Which of the following would increase salinity?

The thermocline and pycnocline does not exist in polar regions because

Which explanation best describes the development of a wave?

What does the halocline show?

Where would you find the coldest, saltiest waters in the oceans?

What causes the waves in the ocean?

What is the main salt in seawater?

Which of the following gases gets added to seawater primarily by geological processes?

Which type of currents move faster?

What is the fetch?

When solar and lunar gravitational pulls are perpendicular to one another, ____ tides occur.

The salinity of the ocean is the same throughout.

The basic motions of the ocean are waves, currents, and ......

A western shoreline in the Northern Hemisphere has prevailing winds blowing from the ____ that produce coastal upwelling

What is a gyre?

Which of the following is important in accumulating and removing sands that result in shifting barrier islands?

Which type of ocean currents are mixed?

Water in the ocean is

Spring tides occur when their is a full or new moon. Tides during this time

What influences the density of seawater?

Sound travels _________ through liquids than it does through air.

A pycnocline is a boundary between changing regions of which of the following properties?

Which of the following factors interact to create currents that are 50 m deep?

What is the average salinity of the ocean?

Which of the following conditions will produce the largest waves?

Which of the following has a definite pattern of variation with respect to latitude?

What does the thermocline show changes in?

Which factors affect thermohaline circulation?

What is moving when a wave travels?

Which of the following explanations would account for Iceland’s climate if there were no surface currents?