Spring Semester Exam Prep

What device measures air pressure?

A nourishment level in a food chain

What does the Coriolis Effect describe

The layer of ocean where there is a rapid change of temperature with depth that creates a barrier to marine life

What is the gently sloping submerged surface extending from the shoreline called?

The bottom of a wave is called the

Newton’s 1st Law of motion describes

What forms at sites of plate convergence where a moving plate descends beneath another and plunges back into the mantle?

What word best describes the weather of a region over a long period of time?

What is the bottom layer of the atmosphere?

What is the steep gradient that leads to the deep-ocean floor?

What is the dividing line between the Northern and Southern hemispheres?

What is the measurement of ocean depths and the charting of the shape or topography of the ocean floor called?

The transfer of heat through circulation or currents

A good definition for heat is

What are narrow sandbars parallel to, but separate from, the coast at distances from 3 to 30 kilometers offshore?

What is the difference between an ocean and a sea?

What type of sediment consists of mineral grains that were eroded from continental rocks

The dominant west to east motion of the atmosphere on the pole sides of the tropics

What device measures wind speed?

SONAR is an acronym for

Clouds best described as sheets or layers that cover much or all of the sky

As air cools, the relative humidity

The distance that the wind has traveled across open water

Underwater cone-shaped volcanic mountains

The “shortest” day of the year in which there is the least amount of sunlight is

In which type of climate is the mean temperature of the warmest month below 10 degrees Celcius?

What types of storm clouds, characterized by an anvil-shaped head, form when a cold front and warm front meet?

What are centers of low pressure called?

The pelagic zone can best be described as

Which tides have the greatest range between low and high tides?

Clouds that are high, white, and thin

The upper part of the ocean into which sunlight penetrates

Which climate has high temperatures and much annual precipitation?

The major benefit of ozone is

What causes seafloor spreading?

The seaward extension of a valley cut on the continental shelf by turbidity currents

What is the Greenhouse Effect?

Phytoplankton consists primarily of

An immense body of air, characterized by similar temperatures and amounts of moisture

The seasonal reversal of wind direction associated with large continents

What is the ultimate cause of wind?

When mountains act as barriers to the flow of air, forcing the air to ascend