Chapter 17 A-B

Question 1

What is portable water

Answer 1

Drinkable water

Question 2

Vast bodies of salt water that separates continents

Answer 2

Ocean

Question 3

How does the sea influence earth weather

Answer 3

Water cycle

Question 4

What is the term for having to do with oceans

Answer 4

Marine

Question 5

Science deals with the physical and biological properties of the sea

Answer 5

Oceanography

Question 6

Marine scientist and engineers, who work to better understand the ocean

Answer 6

Oceanographer

Question 7

Study plant and animal life in the ocean environment

Answer 7

Marine biologist

Question 8

Study the influence of ocean on weather climate

Answer 8

Meteorologist

Question 9

What are the five major basins

Answer 9

Attic Atlantic Indian pacific southern

Question 10

What is a large section of the ocean mostly surrounded by land? 

Answer 10

Sea

Question 11

What is a deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land? 

Answer 11

Gulfs

Question 12

What is the height of the ocean surface at a given location?

Answer 12

Local sea level

Question 13

What measures local sea level

Answer 13

Tide gauges

Question 14

What is the mathematical model of the Earth? Earth like shape

Answer 14

Geoid

Question 15

What is the zero height that cartographers and pilots used to measure elevation, depth, and altitude 

Answer 15

MSL

Question 16

Petroleum and natural gas from the ocean 

Answer 16

Hydrocarbons

Question 17

Submerge edges of the continental plates

Answer 17

Continental shelf

Question 18

Boundary between Continental crest and Oceana crust

Answer 18

Continental slope

Question 19

Transition from continental slope to ocean floor

Answer 19

Continental rise

Question 20

Flat top seamounts

Answer 20

Guyot

Question 21

Scientist, remove Long cylindrical samples to study make up in history of sediment on ocean floor

Answer 21

Sediment cores

Question 22

Found in  convergent subduction zones

Answer 22

Trenches

Question 23

Deepest trench

Answer 23

Marina trench

Question 24

Long curved strings of a volcanic islands

Answer 24

Island arc

Question 25

Is coral living

Answer 25

Yes

Question 26

Secret calcium carbonate

Answer 26

Coral reefs

Question 27

Grow right up to the beach along the coast line

Answer 27

Fringing reefs

Question 28

Farther from land form a lagoon between reef and land

Answer 28

Barrier reef

Question 29

Ring of low coral islands and reefs surrounding a central lagoon

Answer 29

Atoll

Question 30

The original amount of salt is unknown true or false

Answer 30

True

Question 31

Ocean saltiness

Answer 31

Salinity

Question 32

What is the percent of salt by mass formula? 

Answer 32

Salt —— X 100 = % Water

Question 33

Where is  the saltiest water? And why?

Answer 33

Warmer because of evaporation

Question 34

What makes the up the salt water

Answer 34

Nitrogen oxygen and carbon dioxide

Question 35

How do fish breathe

Answer 35

Gills dissolve gasses out