Honors Marine Science Chapter 3 and 4 Test Review

Salinity, temperature, and pressure affect ________

Waves formed at the boundary of water with different densities are called?

The difference between the highest high tide and lowest low tide is called:

Why is water said to have a high specific heat?

The availability of nitrogen, phosphorous, and iron determines what?

Water is ________

What's the significance of the ocean's ability to store 50x more CO2 than in the atmosphere?

Particles moving in an orbital path through water are considered

Wind, earthquakes, and landslides are the generating forces for what?

What is an important factor in a tropical environment that requires marine organisms adapt?

Changes in state, changes in temperature, or both are the result of what?

Why is the ocean blue?

Deep-water, shallow-water and intermediate are categories of

What characteristic of water is typically 35 parts per thousand?

Hydrogen bonds make water what?

Semidiurnal, mixed semidiurnal, and diurnal are examples of __________

Under what circumstance do gas-filled structures in organisms collapse and shrink, limiting their depth?

Wave formation is an important result of _________

An example of a capillary wave is

The moon's gravitational pull is responsible for _______

Evenly spaced waves with smoothly rounded crests and troughs are called

What property of water allows it to become an insulator, less dense & float and supports marine life?

From which oceanic process are organisms that produce calcium carbonate structures most at risk?

Wind speed, wind duration, and fetch are factors in

Liquid water becomes more dense, decreases in volume, and sinks in the ocean when _______

Why is water called the universal solvent?

Neap tides happen when ____________

Spring tides happen when _____________

The temperature of the ocean controls what?