Chapter 17

Question 1

Ocean saltiness

Answer 1

Salinity

Question 2

What is the percent of salt by mass formula

Answer 2

Salt x 100=%
——
Water

Question 3

Where is the slatiest water

Answer 3

Warmer because of evaporation

Question 4

Edge of water at any given time

Answer 4

Shoreline

Question 5

Area where only the highest tides or storm waves can reach

Answer 5

Berm

Question 6

Zone between the high and low tide

Answer 6

Beach face

Question 7

Shallow bottom of the beach

Answer 7

Longshore sandbar

Question 8

Long wide, shallow depression of the sea floor

Answer 8

Longshore trough

Question 9

Carrying minerals into the ocean

Answer 9

Rivers

Question 10

Carrying soil and volcanic ash

Answer 10

Wind

Question 11

Loss of water through evaporation wood leave salts behind

Answer 11

Evaporation

Question 12

Low salinity salt, water near mouth of rivers

Answer 12

Brackish Waters

Question 13

More salt

Answer 13

Brine waters

Question 14

Higher level of saltiness

Answer 14

Warm water

Question 15

Most valuable resource

Answer 15

Freshwater

Question 16

Remove minerals and make water portable

Answer 16

Clumping

Question 17

Boiling water to remove sediments and salt

Answer 17

Distillation

Question 18

Purification process

Answer 18

Reverse osmosis

Question 19

Depends on amount of sunlight it absorbs

Answer 19

Temperature

Question 20

Temperature in the deepest abyss

Answer 20

0 to 3°C

Question 21

Gets lower as salinity increases

Answer 21

Freezing point

Question 22

Pressure equation

Answer 22

X
— + 1
10

Question 23

Depend depends on density of the water

Answer 23

Speed of the sound in water

Question 24

Location of objects by reflected sound

Answer 24

Echolocation

Question 25

On a beach between low and high tide limits

Answer 25

Intertidal zone

Question 26

Where is the intertidal zone

Answer 26

Beach face

Question 27

 Between low tide, mark and the edge of the continental shelf

Answer 27

Littoral zone

Question 28

Where is the literal zone?

Answer 28

Continental shelf

Question 29

Bottom, dwelling animals, and plant plants

Answer 29

Benthic organisms

Question 30

Don’t live on the ocean bottom

Answer 30

Pelagic  organisms

Question 31

Open water

Answer 31

Photic

Question 33

Create your own light

Answer 33

Bioluminescent

Question 34

Phytoplankton and green plants don’t live here

Answer 34

No light

Question 35

No light

Answer 35

Aphotic zone

Question 36

Below aphotic zone

Answer 36

Abyssal zone

Question 37

Nutrients that fall down from above

Answer 37

Marine snow

Question 38

Bottom of the deepest trenches

Answer 38

Hadal zone

Question 39

Fast and complex global process

Answer 39

Marine carbon cycle

Question 40

Main reservoirs of carbon

Answer 40

Atmosphere, ocean, rock, land, earths deep interior

Question 41

Bacteria, turning atmospheric nitrogen into useful organic nitrogen

Answer 41

Nitrogen fixing

Question 42

The bacteria that produces the organic nitrogen

Answer 42

Cyna bacteria

Question 43

Too much man-made nitrogen fertilizer

Answer 43

Alga bloom