Marine Science Midterm Review

What is the bond that forms between hydrogen and oxygen atoms within the same molecule?

Humidity and temperature have the greatest effect on what property of air?

Which of the following is not a subdiscipline of Marine Science?

What are the correct temperatures for the boiling point and melting point of water?

Which list are all early Marine Scientists?

What is the order for the mechanical layers of the Earth? (Starting are the surface)

Straws of two thickness are in water. Which straw would the fluid level to be higher in?

What are the four currents in the North Pacific Gyre?

Which is the correct order for the pelagic zones of the ocean, starting from the surface?

What beach warning flag means dangerous sea life?

What percent of the global water is fresh?

Which is not another name for the Boiling Point of water?

What is not required for a hurricane to form?

What two oceans border the African continent on the east and west?

When water molecules stick to one another it is the process of __________.

What geological feature is formed by sea floor spreading?

What type of plate boundaries result in a subduction zone?

Water is considered a universal __________.

Who suggested the theory of continental drift?

What is occurring when a warm air mass moves into an area a cooler air mass was occupying?

What degree angle is created by the positions of the Sun, moon and earth during an Spring tide?

This happens when the gulf stream deviates south and the trade winds slow or reverse.

The concentration of salt in water is known as what?

What is it called when sand moves along the beach due to waves hitting the beach at an angle?

What do all equatorial and polar winds have in common?

What organism at the beach is responsible for the most global deaths?

A large destructive wave carried through water is known as what?

What would a beach be categorized if it had large rocks, cliff faces, and large waves?

What most affects the seasons here on earth?

What property does the polarity of water effect?

The amount of energy it takes to raise one gram of a substance by one degree (K).

What gives most winds their names?

A substance takes in a lot of energy and changes temp. a lot, it has a high specific heat.

What is the Chemical Formula of Water?

What was the most devastating US hurricane of your lifetime before 2017?

How many hours of sunlight do we have during the summer solstice here in Riverview?

Which is not an example of where we can see the Coriolis effect?

Which is not a star commonly used for navigation on the high seas?

What industry is upwelling important for?

England offered a prize to solve the Longitude Problem. What was it and who was the winner?

What is the name of the chain of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean?

What two factors most effect air pressure?

What is the order of the zonation of the beach as you walk from the shore into the water?

Which is not a type of cloud?

What is the distance between two similar points along a wave?

What category of hurricane is matched with a correct wind speed?

What is the supercontinent formed when all modern continents were connected?

Which is the least dense substance?

What is the best method for stopping the movement of sand along the beach?

Particles moving over a rotating earth due to forces perpendicular to direction of motion.